Janos
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janos is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Janos, vernacular form of Latin Johannes (see John).
- HUHungary1 in 58◐
- RORomania1 in 14K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 142K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈171K ●
- #901 ●
- Sources
- 190 ●
- 1 in 58 ◐
across 15 countries
of 16M given names
33K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled János in SI Slovenia, RS Serbia, AU Australia and 3 more.
Meaning & origin●
from the personal name Janos, vernacular form of Latin Johannes (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 25 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #6 | 168,332△ | 23K rec. | 1 in 58 | 168K | Janos | 177 |
| RO Romania | #353 | 2,277 | 518 rec. | — | — | Janos | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,453 | 743 rec. | — | — | Janos | 77 |
| US United States | — | 808 | 6.6K rec. | 1 in 412K | 808 | Janos | 190 |
| SE Sweden | — | 671△ | 124 rec. | 1 in 15K | 671 | Janos | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | 302 | 312 rec. | — | — | Janos | 54 |
| HR Croatia | — | 300 | — | 1 in 14K | 300 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 281 | 153 rec. | — | 3 | Janos | 42 |
| BE Belgium | — | 274 | 269 rec. | — | 3 | Janos | 23 |
| PL Poland | — | 263△ | 81 rec. | 1 in 146K | 263 | Janos | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 148 | 193 rec. | 1 in 338K | 148 | Janos | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 136 | — | 1 in 1.6M | 137 | — | — |
Roughly 168K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 58). 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●
- Hungarian2.9M99%
- English7K1%
- German5.2K1%
- Portuguese1.8K1%
- Spanish1.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,912,209 | 99% |
| English | 6,977 | 1% |
| German | 5,228 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 1,789 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,400 | 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●
Janos 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.
from a derivative of the personal name Jan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Janos (János) är en ungersk form av → Johannes.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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 |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2019 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1964–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- John Hunyadib. 1407HUnot in their usual nameRegent-Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1446–1453
- John Zápolyab. 1487HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania
- John Sigismund Zápolyab. 1540HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary and Prince of Transylvania
- János Bolyaib. 1802ROHungarian mathematician (1802–1860)
- János Aranyb. 1817HUHungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817–1882)
- John von Neumannb. 1903HUnot in their usual nameHungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
- János Kádárb. 1912HUformer General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
- János Kornaib. 1928HUHungarian economist (1928-2021)
- Gyula Hornb. 1932HUnot in their usual nameHungarian politician (1932–2013)
- János Áderb. 1959HUPresident of Hungary from 2012 to 2022 (born 1959)
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 808 | #14,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 800 | #28,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 763 | #32,340 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 746 | #31,107 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 671 | #2,235 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 412 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 264 | #3,886 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 148 | #11,487 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 137 | #15,137 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 136 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 135 | #33,256 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 131 | #5,882 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 191 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Janos?
- We estimate roughly 171 thousand people bear Janos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Janos have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 168 thousand people bear Janos in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled janos.
- Where is Janos most common?
- Janos is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 people carrying it.
- How common is Janos compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Janos is the 6th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Janos a male or female name?
- Janos 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 Janos mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Janos, vernacular form of Latin Johannes (see John).
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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, “Janos” — the 6th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.