Janvier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Janvier ‘January’ (see January 1)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɑ̃vje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janvier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 224K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Janvier ‘January’ (see January 1). IJ.hId:!JJ.-ltl A bearer of the name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec city in 1680.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janvier 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | #18 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Janvier | 13 |
| RW Rwanda | #139 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Janvier | 13 |
| FR France | #822 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 798 | Janvier | 257 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | — | 10 |
| US United States | — | 1,482 | 1 in 224K | 1.9K | Janvier | 126 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 5 | — | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the ht-potomitan-names register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Janvier is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, January
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, du nom latin Jānuārius, dérivé de jānus ‘passage couvert, arcade’.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In frm, January (month)
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)
- Catherine A. Janvierb. 1841USAmerican artist, writer and translator (1841–1922)
- Thomas Allibone Janvierb. 1849USAmerican writer and historian (1849–1913)
- Louis-Joseph Janvierb. 1855HTHaitian journalist (1855–1911)
- Philippe Janvierb. 1903FRFrench actor (1903–1967)
- Ludovic Janvierb. 1934FRFrench poet and writer (1934–2016)
- Bernard Janvierb. 1939FRFrench general
- Philippe Janvierb. 1948FRFrench paleontologist
- Maxime Janvierb. 1996FRFrench tennis player
- Nicolas Janvierb. 1998FRFrench footballer (born 1998)
- Sequoia Janvieractor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 961 | #24,406 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 942 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 903 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 839 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 816 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 812 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 798 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 707 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 629 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 582 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Janvier come from?
- from the personal name Janvier ‘January’ (see January 1). IJ.hId:!JJ.-ltl A bearer of the name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec city in 1680. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Janvier?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɑ̃vje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Janvier mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Janvier ‘January’ (see January 1).
- What are other forms of the name Janvier?
- In the etymology graph, Gennarino is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Janvier have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Janvier in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janvier.
- How common is the name Janvier?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,482 people named Janvier in 2010, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.
- How common is Janvier compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Janvier is the 18th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Janvier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janvierThe 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, “Janvier” — the 18th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.