The JANIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,814	8022	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	172	21523	0	3
Change since 1880	+3642	+13501	+N/A	+11
Other Countries
Australia	21	50007	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for JANIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	403	3733	0.003	32
New York	390	5819	0.002	21
California	333	9234	0.001	10
Florida	241	9031	0.002	15
Texas	238	8804	0.001	11
Top States for JANIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	210	375	0.028	278
Illinois	403	3733	0.003	32
Alaska	16	7144	0.003	26
New York	390	5819	0.002	21
Missouri	113	7301	0.002	20

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of JANIS

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

Ethnic distribution of JANIS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	583	15.29
Black/African American	110	2.88
White (Hispanic)	110	2.88
Mixed Race	75	1.97
Asian/Pacific	15	0.39
White (Caucasian)	2,921	76.59

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

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

Similar names to JANIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANIS.

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.