Jannie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A janitor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒæni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jannie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
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)
a diminutive of the female given name Johanna
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jannie is read(measured from records)
Jannie 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.
- English70%
A janitor.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch6.7%
a diminutive of the female given name Johanna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jannie in Danish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Jannie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Jannie | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | #285 | 9,226 | 1 in 1.9K | 9.2K | Jannie | 61 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Jannie | 66 |
| US United States | — | 4,900 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Jannie | 296 |
| DK Denmark | #228 | 4,712 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.7K | Jannie | 109 |
| SE Sweden | — | 226 | 1 in 45K | 226 | Jannie | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Jannie | 32 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Jannie 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.
In Afrikaans, a diminutive of the male given names Jan or Johan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, janitor
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)
- Jannie Lootsb. 1914ZASouth African politician
- Jannie de Grootb. 1930NLDutch swimmer (1930–2011)
- Jannie van Eyck-Vosb. 1936NLDutch athlete (1936-2020)
- Jannie Blackwellb. 1945USAmerican politician
- Jannie Van Der Bergb. 1959ZAcyclist
- Jannie Lasimbangb. 1962MYMalaysian politician
- Anke Jannie Landmanb. 1974NLDutch speed skater
- Jannie du Plessisb. 1982ZASouth African rugby union footballer
- Jannie HouwelingNLDutch actress
- Jannie HabigZARally driver
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 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9.2K | #252 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5.9K | #611 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,973 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4.7K | #145 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 281 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 271 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 266 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1944 | 265 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 264 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 261 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 258 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 257 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Jannie come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Johanna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jannie?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒæni/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jannie mean?
- In English, A janitor.
- Is Jannie a male or female name?
- Jannie 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jannie?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Janice and Shawn are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jannie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Jannie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jannie.
- Where is Jannie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jannie is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jannie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9,226 people named Jannie, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Jannie compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jannie is the 228th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jannie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jannieThe 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, “Jannie” — the 228th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.