Janina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: a female given name, equivalent to English Jane
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jaɲina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 193(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.2Kas Янина
- USUnited States1 in 2.4Kas Jenna
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Janina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- 1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)
198,471 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Янина in RU Russia, FI Finland, BY Belarus, Jeanna in US United States, DE Germany and Яніна in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Jane
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Janina is read(measured from records)
Janina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish40%
a female given name, equivalent to English Jane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German19%
weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Janina in English.
- Spanish14%
a diminutive of the female given name Juana, equivalent to English Janine or Jeannine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #50 | 198,471 | 1 in 193 | 198K | Janina | 119 |
| US United States | — | 140,773as Jenna | 1 in 2.4K | 141K | Jeanna | 339 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Jeanna | 47 |
| RU Russia | #307 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | #295 | Янина | 152 |
| UA Ukraine | #169 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Яніна | 45 |
| FI Finland | #867 | 11,574as Jenna | 1 in 481 | 12K | Янина | 10 |
| BY Belarus | #129 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1 | Янина | 29 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 610 | 54K | — | 4 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,685as Žanna | 1 in 511 | 3.7K | Janina | 8 |
198,471 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Registrų centras — top-50 given names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Janina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Janina är en femininform till → Jan. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 15 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Garden.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Finnish, a female given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage, equivalent to English Jane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janina Lewandowskab. 1908UAPolish officer and aviator (1908-1940)
- Yanina Zhejmob. 1909PLnot in their usual nameSoviet actress (1909–1987)
- Maja Komorowskab. 1937PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Zyta Gilowskab. 1949PLnot in their usual namePolish economist, academic and politician (1949-2016)
- Janina Zielińskab. 1953PLPolish docent
- Janina Korowickab. 1954PLPolish speed skater
- Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskayab. 1976BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian shot putter
- Yanina Batyrchinab. 1979RUnot in their usual namegymnast
- Janina Gavankarb. 1980USAmerican actress (born 1980)
- Janina Uhseb. 1989DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 198K | #34 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 198K | #34 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 54K | #4 |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | 29K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,475 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.4K | #352 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 311 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 305 | #742 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 154 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,987 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Janina?
- A machine transcription gives /jaɲina/ (IPA) for Polish.
- What does the name Janina mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Jane Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Janina?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Jannicke and Jannike are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Janina a male or female name?
- Janina is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Janina have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 198 thousand people named Janina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janina.
- Where is Janina most common?
- Janina is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 193 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Janina?
- In Poland, the national register counted 198,471 people named Janina in 2026, about 1 in 193 residents.
- How common is Janina compared with other names?
- In Poland, Janina is the 50th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Janina” — the 50th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.