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The JANEWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 760 29325 0 3
United States (1880 census) 162 22446 0 3
Change since 1880 +598 -6879 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 26 42911 0 2
United Kingdom 49 26164 0 1
Top States for JANEWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 141 4589 0.002 25
California 116 19380 0.000 3
Texas 56 23088 0.000 3
Indiana 45 13914 0.001 7
Michigan 33 34534 0.000 3
Top States for JANEWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 141 4589 0.002 25
Vermont 7 11398 0.001 11
Indiana 45 13914 0.001 7
Oklahoma 23 13687 0.001 7
Oregon 20 19460 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of JANEWAY

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

Ethnic distribution of JANEWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 716 94.21
White (Hispanic) 17 2.24
Native American/Alaskan 12 1.58
Mixed Race 8 1.05
Asian/Pacific 7 0.92
Black/African American Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of JANEWAY in historical publications


A Genoese.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to JANEWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANEWAY.

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 JANEWAY

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