Janira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Appartenente alla tribù degli Ioni
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xaŋiɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 48K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 56K
- PEPeru≈1 in 101K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
3,790 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Appartenente alla tribù degli Ioni
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 3,790 | 1 in 56K | 4.6K | Janira | 55 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,041 | 1 in 48K | 1K | Janira | 65 |
| US United States | — | 827 | 1 in 402K | 823 | Janira | 132 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Janira | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 344K | 3 | Janira | 11 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 1 | Janira | 23 |
| CV Cape Verde | #440 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | Janira | 7 |
3,790 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janira Martins Costab. 1941BRBrazilian entomologist, researcher and university teacher (1941–2018)
- Janira Majellob. 1970ITItalian journalist
- Janira Hopffer Almadab. 1978CVCape Verdean politician
- Janira Ruizb. 1996ESSpanish association football player
- Janira Planesb. 1997ESCatalan journalist
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.6K | #3,558 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.6K | #1,581 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.8K | #3,317 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 3.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 3.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 1.6K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #2,790 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #1,375 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Janira mean, and where does it come from?
- Appartenente alla tribù degli Ioni Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- How do you pronounce Janira?
- A machine transcription gives /xaŋiɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Janira a male or female name?
- Janira 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.
- In which country does Janira have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Janira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janira.
- Where is Janira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janira is densest in Spain — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Janira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,790 people named Janira in 2022, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Janira compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Janira is the 440th most common given name of 878 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janira?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janiraThe 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, “Janira” — the 440th most common given name in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.