Janïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɑ̃is/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janïs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
- LVLatvia1 in 43(measured from records)
- GRGreece1 in 33as Ιωάννης
- CYCyprus1 in 94as Ιωαννης
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Janïs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #265 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 580 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
3,125,123 named John, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Janice in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Ioannis in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus, John in GR Greece and Giannis in BR Brazil.
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)
Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Sources 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janïs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #124 | 3,125,123as John | 1 in 106 | 3.1M | Janice | 580 |
| GR Greece | #1 | 320,751as Ιωάννης | 1 in 33 | 650K | John | 246 |
| BR Brazil | — | 171,850as Jean | 1 in 1.2K | 172K | Giannis | 12 |
| PH Philippines | #148 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | — | Janice | 160 |
| GB United Kingdom | #139 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 773 | 26 | Janice | 262 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69,521as John | 1 in 147 | 70K | Ioannis | 49 |
| LV Latvia | #1 | 43,623 | 1 in 43 | 44K | Jānis | 63 |
| CY Cyprus | #16 | 13,458as Ιωαννης | 1 in 94 | 13K | Ioannis | 97 |
3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling john. 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; ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Janïs mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Janice, q.v. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Janïs?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɑ̃is/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Janïs a male or female name?
- Janïs is a male 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.
- In which country does Janïs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Janïs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janïs is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 43 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Janïs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 43,623 people named Janïs, about 1 in 43 residents.
- How common is Janïs compared with other names?
- In the United States, Janïs is the 124th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jan%C3%AFsThe 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, “Janïs” — the 124th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.