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

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 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?

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.