Janella
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janella is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- PHPhilippines1 in 26K◐
- USUnited States1 in 200K
- GYGuyana1 in 22K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.8K ●
- Sources
- 209 ●
- 1 in 22K ◐
across 5 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | 6,481 | 1.2K rec. | — | 417 | Janella | 67 |
| US United States | 1,665 | 13K rec. | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Janella | 209 |
| PE Peru | 799 | 533 rec. | — | — | Janella | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | 498 | 456 rec. | — | listed | Janella | 39 |
| CA Canada | 380 | 293 rec. | — | 1 | Janella | 37 |
| AU Australia | 333 | 285 rec. | — | 1 | Janella | 40 |
| FR France | 186 | 125 rec. | — | — | Janella | 29 |
| EC Ecuador | 160 | 15 rec. | — | 1 | Janella | 14 |
| CL Chile | 117 | 14 rec. | — | 1 | Janella | 14 |
| CO Colombia | 85 | 45 rec. | — | — | Janella | 15 |
| MX Mexico | 81 | 69 rec. | — | — | Janella | 17 |
| FI Finland | 70△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 80K | 85 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English18K64%
- Spanish4.4K16%
- 1.1K4%
- Portuguese4842%
- Finnish4001%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 17,946 | 64% |
| Spanish | 4,448 | 16% |
| 1,054 | 4% | |
| Portuguese | 484 | 2% |
| Finnish | 400 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Janella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of janela.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 7 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 9 |
| 1935 | 11 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1937 | 11 |
| 1938 | 15 |
| 1939 | 8 |
| 1940 | 15 |
| 1941 | 12 |
| 1942 | 9 |
| 1943 | 10 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 12 |
| 1946 | 12 |
| 1947 | 17 |
| 1948 | 20 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 14 |
| 1951 | 27 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 22 |
| 1954 | 25 |
| 1955 | 22 |
| 1956 | 21 |
| 1957 | 23 |
| 1958 | 18 |
| 1959 | 21 |
| 1960 | 22 |
| 1961 | 24 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 8 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 16 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 24 |
| 1970 | 37 |
| 1971 | 58 |
| 1972 | 37 |
| 1973 | 35 |
| 1974 | 46 |
| 1975 | 39 |
| 1976 | 36 |
| 1977 | 32 |
| 1978 | 47 |
| 1979 | 43 |
| 1980 | 42 |
| 1981 | 34 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 20 |
| 1984 | 30 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 18 |
| 1987 | 31 |
| 1988 | 28 |
| 1989 | 19 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 36 |
| 1992 | 24 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 27 |
| 1995 | 11 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 21 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 18 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 26 |
| 2014 | 24 |
| 2015 | 25 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 103 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Janella Salvadorb. 1998PHFilipino actress
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,635 |
| PH Philippines | PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) | 2023 | 417 | #20 |
| PH Philippines | The page lists the most popular baby names in the Philippines for 2023 as provided by Smart Parenting and the Philippine | 2023 | 417 | #20 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 346 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #5,967 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 47 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 46 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 45 | #9,002 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 42 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 227 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Janella?
- We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Janella (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Janella have the most bearers?
- Janella is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled janella.
- Where is Janella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janella is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- Is Janella a male or female name?
- Janella is a female 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.
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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.
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, “Janella”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.