Jani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jani är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Jan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈjɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 38K
- USUnited States1 in 195K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Jani är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Jan. Namnet var mycket populärt i Finland under 1970- och 1980-talet.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jani 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.
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Jani is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Swahili: a leaf
as a nameAfrican Names
Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskritjhanl ‘knowing’, ‘learned’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
offer thanks.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the male given name János
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, vocative singular of Jana (informal)
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)
- Christian David Janib. 1743DEGerman classical philologist and teacher
- A. N. Janib. 1921INIndian scholar and Indologist (1921-2003)
- Achyut Yagnikb. 1946INnot in their usual nameIndian journalist, academic and activist
- Ildikó Janib. 1951HUHungarian actress
- Harshadev Madhavb. 1954INnot in their usual nameIndian writer
- Louis Janib. 1957CACanadian judoka
- Anna Varga-Janib. 1980HUHungarian philosopher
- Neel Janib. 1983CHSwiss professional Porsche factory driver
- Réka Luca Janib. 1991HUHungarian female tennis player
- Nirmal Janib. 2000INIndian cinematographer
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 81 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2K | #200 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #7,456 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1K | #382 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1K | #180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 375 | #7,456 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7 | #3,203 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jani?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɑni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Jani mean?
- Recorded meaning: Jani är ursprungligen en finsk smekform till → Jan.
- What are other forms of the name Jani?
- In the etymology graph, Van, Jaan and Vano are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Jani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jani.
- How common is the name Jani?
- In India, the national register counted 34,811 people named Jani, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Jani compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Jani is the 684th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janiThe 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, “Jani” — the 684th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.