Is Janis a male or female name?
Janis is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in Switzerland at 96%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 91%
- Sample size
- 55,102
- Confidence
- high
Janis by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 100% | 49,003 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | male | 96% | 3,241 | bfs |
| France FR | female | 64% | 1,385 | insee |
| Poland PL | male | 97% | 376 | pesel |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 338 | ssb |
| Austria AT | male | 91% | 302 | statat |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 201 | ine |
| England and Wales GB | female | 75% | 109 | nrs |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 101 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 80% | 46 | cso |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · EE · ES · FR · GB · IE · LV · NO · PL · SE · US
Janis over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Janis in the 1910s were girls, against 100% in the 2010s. In France, 65.9% of the babies named Janis in the 1990s were girls, against 56% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 100% | 389 | — | |
| 1920s | 100% | 1,479 | — | |
| 1930s | 100% | 4,650 | — | |
| 1940s | 100% | 14,908 | — | |
| 1950s | 100% | 18,720 | — | |
| 1960s | 100% | 4,995 | — | |
| 1970s | 99% | 1,863 | — | |
| 1980s | 99% | 870 | — | |
| 1990s | 100% | 461 | 66% | 220 |
| 2000s | 99% | 348 | 55% | 540 |
| 2010s | 100% | 252 | 73% | 410 |
| 2020s | — | 56% | 125 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Janis with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Janis&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Janis
Is Janis a male or female name?
Janis is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in Switzerland at 96%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Janis change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Janis identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.