Janiya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name of Hebrew origin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɑnijə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janiya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 42K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 793K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
7,935 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name of Hebrew origin.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,935 | 1 in 42K | 7.9K | Janiya | 181 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Janiya | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Janiya | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 1 | Janiya | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 2 | Janiya | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Janiya | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
7,935 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the id-github-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.9K | #2,884 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 914 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 889 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 845 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 843 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 838 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 833 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 687 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 539 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 506 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 433 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 425 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Janiya mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name of Hebrew origin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Janiya?
- In the etymology graph, Janiyah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Janiya?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɑnijə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Janiya a male or female name?
- Janiya 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 Janiya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Janiya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janiya.
- Where is Janiya most common?
- Janiya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 42 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Janiya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,935 people named Janiya in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Janiya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janiyaThe 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, “Janiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.