# Janos (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/janos/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 147 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 147 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 40, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | 5,272 |
| 1985 | 5 | 6,990 |
| 1988 | 7 | 6,052 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,440 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,688 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,672 |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,999 |
| 1994 | 7 | 7,288 |
| 1995 | 6 | 8,244 |
| 1996 | 6 | 8,368 |
| 1999 | 5 | 10,613 |
| 2001 | 7 | 8,689 |
| 2002 | 5 | 11,431 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,655 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,231 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |

## People named Janos

- János Kádár, former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
- János Csernoch, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary (185
- János Simor, cardinal (1813-1891)
- János Pálffy, Austrian field marshal (1664-1751)
- János Kajdi, boxer (1939-1992)
- János Kalmár, fencer
- János Székely, association football player
- János Vályi
- János Gálicz, (1890–1939) Hungarian general
- János Aknai, association footballer (1908-1992)
- János Viski, composer (1906–1961)
- János Sylvester, 16th-century Hungarian figure of the Reformation

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.