Janî

given name · Latin script

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

Janî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 20th century rendering of the Swedish Jan.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 195K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 133K

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 (measured from records)

34,811 people

Sources
279 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jani in IN India, FI Finland, US United States and 2 more.

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)

20th century rendering of the Swedish Jan.

Sources 9

  • African Names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Janî 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 Janî is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India34,8111 in 38K35KJani102
US United States1,7041 in 195K2.2KJani279
PK Pakistan≈170 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Jani34
CH Switzerland631 in 133K63Jani11
FI Finland321 in 174K26KJani66
NO Norway161 in 342K108—10

34,811 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Janî under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Janî mean, and where does it come from?
20th century rendering of the Swedish Jan. Recorded by African Names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
Is Janî a male or female name?
Janî is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Janî have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Janî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jani.
Where is Janî most common?
Janî is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 38 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Janî?
In India, the national register counted 34,811 people named Janî, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.

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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, “Janî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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