Janine

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Janine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In English, recorded as Old French feminine form of Johannes (John).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.8K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈47,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
477 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JanineLatin(measured from records)
ДжанинCyrillic(measured from records)
재닌Hangul(measured from records)

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)

Old French feminine form of Johannes (John).

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Janine is read(measured from records)

Janine is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

  • English61%

    Old French feminine form of Johannes (John).

    as a nameIrish first names

  • German11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Janine in German.

  • French11%

    a female given name, a variant of Jeannine popular in mid-twentieth century

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Forme de Jeanne; origine hébraïque, « Dieu est miséricordieux ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Féminin de Jean, du hébreu Yôḥānān, « Dieu fait grâce ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

Janine 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.

Where Janine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#292≈47,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Janine227
US United States#80131,9701 in 10K32KJanine477
PH Philippines#730≈31,000 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Janine139
ZA South Africa#357≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Janine121
GB United Kingdom#491≈16,000 est.≈1 in 4K6Janine243
AU Australia#350≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K87Janine206
CH Switzerland#262≈4,600 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Janine96
NZ New Zealand#242≈1,900 est.≈1 in 2.6K12Janine129

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Janine is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Philippines, United States

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jäninë, Janíné, Jänine, Jânine, Jänïnë

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Janiné

  • Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Janiné, Jániné

  • Thai given name159 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ญาณิน, ญนน, ญาณินี, Yaninee, ยานนท์

  • English (South Africa) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Also written Janiné

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Janine is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • A variant form of the Old French name Jehane, the feminine form of Johannes (John). Jarlath [/arfhlaith] (m) ‘tributary lord’. St Jarlath (died 550) established the bishopric of Tuam. Hierlath is a variant.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • Simplified form of Jeannine.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

19201940196019802000Janine Sutto, b. 1921Janine Charrat, b. 1924Janine Duvitski, b. 1952Janine di Giovanni, b. 1961Janine Turner, b. 1962Debi Thomas, b. 1967Melanie Brown, b. 1975Janine Jansen, b. 1978Janine Wissler, b. 1981Ning Chang, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 82 sources across 47 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Janine mean, and where does it come from?
Old French feminine form of Johannes (John). Recorded by Irish first names.
What are other forms of the name Janine?
In the etymology graph, Jane, Janet and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Janine have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Janine in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janine.
Is Janine a male or female name?
Janine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Janine?
In the United States, the national register counted 31,970 people named Janine in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Janine compared with other names?
In Germany, Janine is the 292nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Janine” — the 292nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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