Last Name JANE

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Meaning The son of Jan, i.e. John. Hence also Jannings for Jennings, or Jankin for Jenkin. In the North there was a strong tendency towards Jan. Johnson is entered as Janson from 1500 to 1700 in some church registers.
Origin English, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 29,142 (2000 US census) 46,919 (1990 US census)
Count 766 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 65.4%, or 501 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 11.1%, or 85 total occurrences, as black,
  • 6.53%, or 50 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.57%, or 12 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.83%, or 14 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 13.58%, or 104 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...

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