Janina

given name · Polish · Latin script

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

Janina is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Poland it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Lithuanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Jane.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 166◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 1.5K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4K

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

≈458K ●

across 14 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
299 ●

579K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 50 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

JaninaLatin · Polish●1.2M records
ЯнинаCyrillic · Russian●118K records
จรุณThai · Thai●1.1K records
চিহ্নBengali · Bangla●3 records
చిన్నTelugu · Telugu●3 records
잔나Hangul · Korean●2 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jeanna in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 7 more, Янина in RU Russia, FI Finland, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Chinna in IN India, SG Singapore and Яніна in 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●

a female given name, equivalent to English Jane

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Janina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#3161,070,867295K rec.—12KChinna115
PL Poland#58230,753△5.8K rec.1 in 166231KJanina114
US United States—140,60990K rec.1 in 2.4K141KJeanna299
UA Ukraine#152106,865109K rec.—listedЯніна40
RU Russia#31998,85050K rec.—#295Янина138
LT Lithuania—54,191△9 rec.1 in 5054K—4
FI Finland—11,574△141 rec.1 in 48112KЯнина10
TH Thailand—10,8676.2K rec.—#89,116ชนวีร์65
FR France—8,065△3 rec.1 in 8.4K8.1K—3
GB United Kingdom—4,2763.8K rec.—4Jeanna58
EC Ecuador—3,744△38 rec.1 in 4.5K3.7KJanina8
LV Latvia—3,685△16 rec.1 in 5113.7KJanina5

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

Languages●

  • Polish1.2M72%
  • Lithuanian224K14%
  • German61K4%
  • Spanish53K3%
  • English50K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish1,184,75872%
Lithuanian223,77714%
German60,6894%
Spanish52,7723%
English49,5323%

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◐

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

  • Lithuanian given name225K records spelled Janina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Janīna, Jaņina, Jaņīna, Jānīna

  • German given name127K records spelled Janina17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Janīna, Jâninâ, Janiña, Jānina, Jänìnä

  • Spanish given name79K records spelled Janina20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Janiña, Ioanina, Janína, Ioannina, Jänïnä

  • Finnish given name20K records spelled Janina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Slovenia, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Janīna

  • French given name10.0K records spelled Janina5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Janïna, Janiña, Janīna

  • a separate given name3.8K records spelled Janina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Janīna, Janiña, Janína

  • Bangla given name309 records spelled Janina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Bangladesh, India

    Also written জানিনা

45 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.

Other recorded senses●

Janina 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 Swedish, Janina är en femininform till → Jan. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 15 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Garden.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Finnish, a female given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage, equivalent to English Jane

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, a diminutive of the female given name Juana, equivalent to English Janine or Jeannine

    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●

02040608019201940196019802000202077 · 1980

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Janina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1911–2025
Yearrecords
19118
19125
191317
191420
191533
191640
191735
191825
191928
192023
192132
192210
192316
192414
192522
192612
192710
19287
19298
19306
19335
19377
19387
19396
19406
19416
19429
19437
194417
194513
194611
194716
194815
194912
195016
195121
195218
195323
195433
195519
195627
195712
195818
195918
196029
196127
196220
196334
196442
196533
196625
196740
196833
196945
197036
197128
197230
197336
197438
197532
197652
197737
197844
197959
198077
198162
198268
198362
198441
198551
198645
198753
198853
198959
199056
199154
199248
199352
199429
199542
199624
199733
199818
199926
200034
200128
200232
200317
200422
200526
200633
200731
200823
200923
201022
201117
201212
201315
201423
201517
201612
201714
201813
201917
202024
202118
202226
202318
202415
202511

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 110 years between 1911–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Janina Lewandowska, b. 1908Yanina Zhejmo, b. 1909Maja Komorowska, b. 1937Zyta Gilowska, b. 1949Janina Zielińska, b. 1953Janina Korowicka, b. 1954Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya, b. 1976Yanina Batyrchina, b. 1979Janina Gavankar, b. 1980Janina Uhse, b. 1989

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 82 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Janina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026231K#14
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—198K#34
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—54K#4
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—54K#4
LT LithuaniaVLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names)—29K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206K#3,475
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.4K#703
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.1K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.7K#421
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.9K#1,076
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)19461.5K#662
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,800

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 687 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Janina?
We estimate roughly 458 thousand people bear Janina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Janina have the most bearers?
Janina is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled chinna.
Where is Janina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janina is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 50 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Janina compared with other names?
In India, Janina is the 316th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Janina a male or female name?
Janina is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Janina mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Jane
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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, “Janina” — the 316th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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