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The JANEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 619 34599 0 2
United States (1880 census) 135 25514 0 3
Change since 1880 +484 -9085 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for JANEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 102 7457 0.002 21
Maryland 95 6170 0.002 18
Ohio 54 23004 0.000 5
Massachusetts 47 16241 0.001 7
Virginia 34 16689 0.000 5
Top States for JANEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 102 7457 0.002 21
Maryland 95 6170 0.002 18
West Virginia 23 6463 0.001 13
Massachusetts 47 16241 0.001 7
Iowa 21 19501 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of JANEY

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

Ethnic distribution of JANEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 398 64.3
Black/African American 184 29.73
Mixed Race 18 2.91
White (Hispanic) 12 1.94
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of JANEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to JANEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANEY.

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 JANEY

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