Yanush
Just 75 men in Poland go by it, rare enough that most Poles have never met one. The Slavic root carries an old sense: god is gracious.
Yanush Pronunciation
What Yanush means
Where Yanush comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yanush spells out loud what Polish writes as Janusz. The name grew in medieval Poland from Jan, and Jan reaches back through Latin Johannes to the Hebrew Yohanan, meaning god is gracious. So the sense sits in the root itself.
Janusz belonged to dukes and villagers alike. Janusz I the Old ruled Masovia and Warsaw around 1400. Five centuries later Janusz Korczak, the doctor and writer who ran an orphanage in Warsaw, carried the name into the twentieth century. The tender diminutive is Januszek, the name softened for a small boy.
Say it plainly. The origin is Slavic in form and Hebrew in meaning. A parent filling an official form at the urząd writes six letters and hands a child a very old blessing about grace.
Janusz means god is gracious, and Januszek is how it sounds when it is soft.
How many people are named Yanush
1 in 284616 men in Poland is named Yanush. 75 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4149 among male names.
Yanush as a middle name
Yanush is a first name for 75 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 9077th, between Yannic (2) and Yaqoob (2).
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#9075 Yanni2
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#9076 Yannic2
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#9077 Yanush2
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#9078 Yaqoob2
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#9079 Yar2