Janny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of jannie (“janitor, moderator”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 30K
- PEPeru≈1 in 42K
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)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of jannie (“janitor, moderator”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janny 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 | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Janny | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | #311 | 9,891 | 1 in 1.7K | 9.8K | Janny | 62 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Janny | 30 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Janny | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,348 | 1 in 247K | 1.2K | Janny | 226 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 961 | 1 in 30K | 961 | Janny | 15 |
| HK Hong Kong | #617 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Janny | 25 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Janny | 33 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Janny | 14 |
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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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)
- Janny Demichelisb. 1938FRFrench politician
- Janny Venemab. 1951NLDutch historian
- Janny Wurtsb. 1953USAmerican writer
- Janny van der Molenb. 1968NLDutch writer
- Sharon den Adelb. 1974NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer
- Janny Sikazweb. 1979ZMZambian football referee
- Leysi Suárezb. 1987PEnot in their usual namePeruvian vedette
- Janny Riverab. 1988COColombian footballer
- Janny May Yee LeungCNChinese operations researcher and academic administrator
- Janny ScottUSAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 134 | #127,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Janny mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of jannie (“janitor, moderator”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Janny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Janny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janny.
- Where is Janny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janny is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- Is Janny a male or female name?
- Janny 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 Janny?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9,891 people named Janny, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Janny compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Janny is the 311th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jannyThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Janny” — the 311th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.