Janja
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janja is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Koseform mehrerer russi scher Vornamen; vielleicht auch weibliche.
- SISlovenia1 in 431◐
- HRCroatia1 in 701
- BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 60 ●
- 1 in 431 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
19K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Yanya in IN India.
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●
weibl. Vom., Koseform mehrerer russi scher Vornamen; vielleicht auch weibliche
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 26 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #177 | 6,033 | 17K rec. | 1 in 701 | 6K | Janja | 60 |
| SI Slovenia | #109 | 4,875△ | 312 rec. | 1 in 431 | 4.9K | Janja | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | 550 | 527 rec. | — | listed | Janja | 60 |
| RS Serbia | #667 | 314 | 127 rec. | — | — | Janja | 23 |
| AT Austria | — | 259 | 127 rec. | — | 22 | Janja | 23 |
| AU Australia | — | 173 | 155 rec. | — | 1 | Janja | 32 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #537 | 118 | 5 rec. | — | — | Janja | 6 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 731 rec. | 1 in 3.1M | 109 | Janja | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 89△ | 18 rec. | 1 in 115K | 89 | Janja | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 56 | 41 rec. | — | listed | Janja | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 53 | 1 rec. | — | 52 | Janja | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 42 | 31 rec. | — | — | Janja | 8 |
Roughly 6K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 701). 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●
- Croatian39K74%
- Hungarian9.9K19%
- German8902%
- Slovenian8002%
- English7191%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 38,969 | 74% |
| Hungarian | 9,906 | 19% |
| German | 890 | 2% |
| Slovenian | 800 | 2% |
| English | 719 | 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●
Janja 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 Swahili, cunning; sly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bol, star
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 |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 66 |
| 1993 | 61 |
| 1994 | 70 |
| 1995 | 57 |
| 1996 | 66 |
| 1997 | 53 |
| 1998 | 43 |
| 1999 | 39 |
| 2000 | 38 |
| 2001 | 38 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 15 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 |
SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 25 years between 1992–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Janja Lalichb. 1945USAmerican sociologist
- Janja Klasincb. 1955SISlovenian journalist
- Janja Vidmarb. 1962SISlovene writer
- Janja Slabeb. 1966SIresearcher
- Janja Majzeljb. 1972SISlovenian actress and singer
- Janja Garnbretb. 1999SISlovenian sport climber
- Janja Šegelb. 2001SISlovenian swimmer
- Janja MihailovićRSSerbian architect
- Janja NograšekSIresearcher
- Janja ŽmavcSIresearcher
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 6K | #173 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 5K | #55 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 5K | #55 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 5K | #54 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 5K | #55 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 5K | #56 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 5K | #56 |
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 · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Janja?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Janja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Janja have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.0 thousand people bear Janja in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled janja.
- Where is Janja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Janja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 431 people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Janja compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Janja is the 177th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Janja a male or female name?
- Janja 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.
- What does the name Janja mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Koseform mehrerer russi scher Vornamen; vielleicht auch weibliche
Query this name via API
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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, “Janja” — the 177th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.