Find out how popular the last name Janik is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Janik.

Janik, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Janik surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Janik in America

Janik is the 9901st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Janik surname appeared 3,265 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Janik.

We can also compare 2010 data for Janik to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Janik

The surname Janik originated in Poland and the surrounding Slavic regions. It is derived from the Slavic personal name Jan, which is a variant of the name John. The suffix "-ik" was commonly added to Slavic names to create patronymic surnames, indicating the name belonged to the son of someone named Jan.

Janik is considered a Polish toponymic surname, meaning it was originally based on a place name. Many early instances of the name can be found in historical records from the area that is now western Poland and eastern Germany, such as the town of Janik in the Opole Voivodeship region.

One of the earliest known bearers of the Janik surname was Maciej Janik, a merchant and landowner from the village of Janik near Poznan, whose name appears in tax records from the early 16th century. Another early record is of Jan Janik, a Polish soldier who fought in the Siege of Vienna in 1683 against the Ottoman Empire.

During the Middle Ages, spelling variations were common, and the name can be found recorded as Janick, Jannick, Yannik, and other similar spellings. As Polish immigrants began arriving in other parts of Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname Janik became more widely dispersed.

Notable individuals with the Janik surname include Michal Janik (1834-1925), a Polish mathematician and professor at the University of Warsaw; Antoni Janik (1863-1924), a Polish painter and art teacher; and Edmund Janik (1923-2005), an American professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1940s.

Other noteworthy bearers of the Janik name were Wladyslaw Janik (1856-1928), a Polish engineer and inventor of early aircraft designs; and Jan Janik (1900-1982), a Polish-born American architect who designed several landmark buildings in Chicago during the mid-20th century.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Janik

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Janik.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Janik was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Janik has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Janik was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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