Jaanus
given name · Estonian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaanus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Jaan, from Johannes. Also shortened from Latinised names like Adrianus and Christianus.
- EEEstonia1 in 504◐
- FIFinland1 in 214K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈34 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 81 ●
- 1 in 214K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Яанус in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Variant of Jaan, from Johannes. Also shortened from Latinised names like Adrianus and Christianus.
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | #59 | 8,422 | 1.4K rec. | — | 3K | Jaanus | 81 |
| RU Russia | — | 84 | 28 rec. | — | — | Яанус | 22 |
| US United States | — | 80 | 73 rec. | — | — | Jaanus | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | 26 | 41 rec. | 1 in 214K | 854 | Jaanus | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 22 | 15 rec. | — | — | Jaanus | 12 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 20 | 24 rec. | — | — | Яанус | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 12 rec. | — | 68 | Jaanus | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | 2 rec. | — | 39 | Jaanus | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 10 | 7 rec. | — | — | Jaanus | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 376K | 5 | Jaanus | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 3 rec. | — | 6 | Jaanus | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Estonian8.4K84%
- Finnish9209%
- English1872%
- Norwegian Bokmål681%
- German671%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian | 8,403 | 84% |
| Finnish | 920 | 9% |
| English | 187 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 68 | 1% |
| German | 67 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 19 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 23 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 21 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 18 years between 2003–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jaanus Nõgistob. 1956EEEstonian guitarist (born 1956)
- Jaanus Tamkivib. 1959EEEstonian politician (born 1959)
- Jaanus Raudkatsb. 1959EEEstonian musician (born 1959)
- Jaanus Marrandib. 1963EEEstonian politician (born 1963)
- Jaanus Kuumb. 1964EEEstonian cyclist (1964–1998)
- Jaanus Veensalub. 1964EEEstonian footballer (born 1964)
- Jaanus Rohumaab. 1969EEEstonian actor and theatrical director (born 1969)
- Jaanus Sirelb. 1975EEEstonian footballer (born 1975)
- Jaanus Sammab. 1982EEEstonian artist (born 1982)
- Jaanus Sorokinb. 1986EEEstonian ice hockey player (born 1986)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3K | #41 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3K | #41 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 854 | #1,600 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 172 | #322 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 155 | #432 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 138 | #14,945 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #9,870 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 39 | #15,228 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 28 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 24 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jaanus?
- We estimate roughly 34 people bear Jaanus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jaanus have the most bearers?
- Jaanus is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled jaanus.
- How common is Jaanus compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Jaanus is the 59th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
- Is Jaanus a male or female name?
- Jaanus 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.
- What does the name Jaanus mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of Jaan, from Johannes. Also shortened from Latinised names like Adrianus and Christianus.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jaanus” — the 59th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.