Janith

given name · English · Latin script

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

Janith is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 960
  • FIFinland1 in 2.2K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 13K

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

≈6.4K

across 11 countries

2

recorded for this name

Sources
59

6.4K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K

Finland

Spellings & scripts

JanithLatin · Sinhala1.3K records
ජනිතSinhala · Sinhala2 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Janitha in US United States, NL Netherlands, IN India and 11 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Janith is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland2,5681 in 2.2K2.6K
US United States1,682562 rec.1 in 198K1.7KJanitha59
LK Sri Lanka#571,4904.7K rec.Janith55
NL Netherlands1,30310 rec.1 in 13K1.3KJanitha4
IN India524475 rec.1Janitha33
BR Brazil3371 in 628K397
NO Norway2565 rec.1 in 21K8563
AU Australia247233 rec.4Janitha34
SE Sweden1670 rec.1 in 61K1673
PH Philippines149133 rec.Janitha3
GB United Kingdom9048 rec.listedJanitha17
LV Latvia531 in 35K53

Roughly 2.6K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 2.2K). 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

  • English7.4K62%
  • Spanish1.6K14%
  • Sinhala1.3K11%
  • Hindi1982%
  • Thai1511%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,42362%
Spanish1,63614%
Sinhala1,27411%
Hindi1982%
Thai1511%

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

Over time

0102030401920193019401950196036 · 1942

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Janith in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–1968
Yearrecords
19136
19245
192515
19267
19279
19287
19297
19307
19316
193210
19336
193420
193518
193615
193714
193815
193926
194025
194125
194236
194324
194427
194527
194631
194725
194818
194919
195020
19519
195215
195320
195415
19558
195615
195712
195812
19596
19606
19616
19625
19638
19646
19657
19676
19685

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)45 years between 1913–1968. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Janith
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020410#22,349
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202036#22,349
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194236
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194631
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194527
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194427
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)193926
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194725
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194125
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194025
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)194324
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#26,298

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Janith?
We estimate roughly 6.4 thousand people bear Janith (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Janith have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.6 thousand people bear Janith in Finland, more than in any other country in our records.
How common is Janith compared with other names?
In Sri Lanka, Janith is the 57th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
Is Janith a male or female name?
Janith 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

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, “Janith” — the 57th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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