Jannie

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.

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Dutch6.7%

  a diminutive of the female given name Johanna

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sco, janitor

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• 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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Jannie come from?

a diminutive of the female given name Johanna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

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.

How do you pronounce Jannie?

In English /dʒæni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Jannie a male or female name?

Jannie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) and Norway (SSB), among others.

What does the name Jannie mean?

In English, A janitor.

In which country does Jannie have the most bearers?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Jannie, 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 Netherlands 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 the Netherlands, Jannie is the 285th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.