Jante

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: wheelrim

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʒɑnti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RERéunion≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 666K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.7M

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈730 people, est.

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Réunion, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

wheelrim

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Jante is read(measured from records)

Jante is one spelling over 6 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.

  • English45%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jante in English.

  • Portuguese20%

    wheelrim

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Hindi14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jante in Hindi.

  • Spanish11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jante in Spanish.

  • French5.6%

    rim (of a wheel), wheelrim

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German5.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Jante in German.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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

Jante 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.

Where Jante is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—≈730 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Jante12
US United States—≈88 est.≈1 in 3.8M79Jante86
RE Réunion#982≈72 est.≈1 in 11K—Jante1
PH Philippines—≈60 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Jante14
DE Germany—≈46 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Jante24
ES Spain—91 in 5.6M9—2
IE Ireland—≈8 est.≈1 in 666K—Jante1

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jante is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines

    Also written Janté

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Janti, Janté

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jante 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 Galician, inflection of jantar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Law of Jante

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ms Jante,
InformalHi Jante,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Jante
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jante mean, and where does it come from?
wheelrim Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Jante?
A machine transcription gives /ʒɑnti/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Jante have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 732 people named Jante in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jante.
How common is the name Jante?
In Spain, the national register counted 9 people named Jante, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.
How common is Jante compared with other names?
In Réunion, Jante is the 982nd most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jante” — the 982nd most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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