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The JANUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,118 13220 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 35 59231 0 1
Change since 1880 +2083 +46011 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 78 17739 0 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for JANUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 368 3477 0.003 30
Wisconsin 175 4444 0.003 33
New York 166 11337 0.001 9
Florida 157 11421 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 151 9782 0.001 12
Top States for JANUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 175 4444 0.003 33
Illinois 368 3477 0.003 30
Connecticut 68 6690 0.002 20
New Jersey 115 8493 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 151 9782 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JANUS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JANUS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JANUS in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JANUS by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JANUS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the JANUS surname.

Ethnic distribution of JANUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 39 1.84
Mixed Race 26 1.23
Black/African American 19 0.9
Asian/Pacific 17 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.61
White (Caucasian) 2,004 94.62

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JANUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

JANUS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of JANUS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of JANUS.

Similar names to JANUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANUS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JANUS

The following words are slight variants of JANUS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.