Janez

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Janez is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English John; diminutive form Janko.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 120◐
  • HRCroatia1 in 36K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 18K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
99 ●

2.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 120 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

JanezLatin · Hungarian●43K records
ЈанезCyrillic · Macedonian●11 records

Locally spelled Јанез in MK North Macedonia.

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●

a male given name, equivalent to English John; diminutive form Janko

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Janez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#417,554△748 rec.1 in 12018KJanez99
HR Croatia—119974 rec.1 in 36K119Janez21
PH Philippines—7567 rec.——Janez6
US United States—55373 rec.1 in 6M55Janez89
GB United Kingdom—4923 rec.——Janez22
RS Serbia—405 rec.——Janez6
SE Sweden—38△2 rec.1 in 268K38—4
CH Switzerland—3511 rec.——Janez13
IT Italy—2728 rec.——Janez8
BR Brazil—25—1 in 8.5M169——
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—241 rec.——Janez3
CA Canada—1717 rec.——Janez15

Roughly 18K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 120). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian43K85%
  • Slovenian2.8K6%
  • Croatian1.5K3%
  • English1.1K2%
  • German6461%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian42,57585%
Slovenian2,7806%
Croatian1,5163%
English1,0822%
German6461%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Janez is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6.6K records spelled Janez14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, France, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French

    Also written Jañez, Jáñez, Jaňez, Janež, Janêz

  • English given name2.8K records spelled Janez14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Slovenia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jañez, Janež, Jáñez

  • a separate given name398 records spelled Janez4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, United States, Spain

    Also written Jañez, Jáñez, Janež

  • Finnish given name128 records spelled Janez4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Jañez, Janež

  • Hindi given name124 records spelled Janez5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jañez, Jáñez

  • Danish given name70 records spelled Janez5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Slovenia

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Jánez

  • Spanish surname69 records spelled Janez192 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Mexico, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Yanez, Yañez, Yáñez, Yánez, Yãñez

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040608020002010202067 · 1995

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Janez in SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), Slovenia, 1992–2023
Yearrecords
199258
199354
199455
199567
199647
199734
199830
199930
200035
200126
200223
200321
200420
200521
200622
200719
200824
200913
201029
201116
201222
201314
201415
20159
20168
20178
20185
20215
20237

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 29 years between 1992–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000John Chrysostom, b. 349John of Damascus, b. 675John VI Kantakouzenos, b. 1292John V Palaiologos, b. 1332John VIII Palaiologos, b. 1392Ioannes Argyropylus Byzantius, b. 1415Ioannis Kapodistrias, b. 1776Ioannis Metaxas, b. 1871Janez Drnovšek, b. 1950Yanis Varoufakis, b. 1961

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 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Janez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200825K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200925K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201025K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201124K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201224K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201323K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201423K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201522K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201622K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201721K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201821K#2
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201920K#2

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 139 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Janez?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Janez (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Janez have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Janez in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled janez.
Where is Janez most common?
Janez is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 120 people carrying it.
How common is Janez compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Janez is the 4th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Janez a male or female name?
Janez 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 Janez mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English John; diminutive form Janko
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Janez” — the 4th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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