Jana
#1,241 for girls in 2025, 181 births · Last seen for boys in 1986 at #5,332
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1961 · 1,456 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 46,185since 1921
Jana over time
Rank among girls' names. Jana has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,241 | 181 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,334 | 171 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,199 | 200 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,138 | 214 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,089 | 228 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,059 | 234 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,065 | 237 | — | |
| 2018 | #982 | 269 | — | |
| 2017 | #915 | 292 | — | |
| 2016 | #915 | 301 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,007 | 266 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,110 | 229 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,021 | 244 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,055 | 238 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,150 | 213 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,030 | 242 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,068 | 239 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,137 | 226 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,059 | 247 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,045 | 245 | — | |
| 2005 | #970 | 252 | — | |
| 2004 | #958 | 250 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,049 | 218 | — | |
| 2002 | #887 | 254 | — | |
| 2001 | #940 | 235 | — | |
| 2000 | #936 | 229 | — | |
| 1999 | #871 | 247 | — | |
| 1998 | #858 | 248 | — | |
| 1997 | #878 | 231 | — | |
| 1996 | #852 | 234 | — | |
| 1995 | #753 | 271 | — | |
| 1994 | #785 | 260 | — | |
| 1993 | #702 | 305 | — | |
| 1992 | #658 | 340 | — | |
| 1991 | #593 | 383 | — | |
| 1990 | #546 | 433 | — | |
| 1989 | #488 | 481 | — | |
| 1988 | #447 | 505 | — | |
| 1987 | #395 | 582 | — | |
| 1986 | #352 | 677 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #338 | 696 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #314 | 757 | — | |
| 1983 | #310 | 741 | — | |
| 1982 | #291 | 843 | — | |
| 1981 | #267 | 939 | — | |
| 1980 | #246 | 1,046 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #226 | 1,161 | — | |
| 1978 | #248 | 959 | — | |
| 1977 | #260 | 949 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #288 | 798 | — | |
| 1975 | #291 | 821 | — | |
| 1974 | #298 | 801 | — | |
| 1973 | #289 | 827 | — | |
| 1972 | #291 | 863 | — | |
| 1971 | #292 | 964 | — | |
| 1970 | #286 | 1,025 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #281 | 1,008 | — | |
| 1968 | #269 | 1,011 | — | |
| 1967 | #255 | 1,074 | — | |
| 1966 | #250 | 1,138 | — | |
| 1965 | #260 | 1,094 | — | |
| 1964 | #252 | 1,227 | — | |
| 1963 | #240 | 1,311 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #241 | 1,313 | — | |
| 1961 | #226 | 1,456 | — | |
| 1960 | #295 | 980 | — | |
| 1959 | #296 | 938 | — | |
| 1958 | #296 | 910 | — | |
| 1957 | #316 | 848 | — | |
| 1956 | #305 | 841 | — | |
| 1955 | #295 | 868 | — | |
| 1954 | #293 | 846 | — | |
| 1953 | #319 | 655 | — | |
| 1952 | #371 | 500 | — | |
| 1951 | #434 | 371 | — | |
| 1950 | #464 | 307 | — | |
| 1949 | #466 | 297 | — | |
| 1948 | #472 | 288 | — | |
| 1947 | #563 | 230 | — | |
| 1946 | #606 | 171 | — | |
| 1945 | #613 | 140 | — | |
| 1944 | #643 | 131 | — | |
| 1943 | #605 | 154 | — | |
| 1942 | #634 | 141 | — | |
| 1941 | #903 | 66 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,097 | 43 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,265 | 34 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,127 | 41 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,132 | 40 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,296 | 31 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,663 | 21 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,003 | 16 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,568 | 24 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jana! It came in at #5,099, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1930, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jana
- 93 spots since 2024 (#1,334 → #1,241)
- 182 spots since 2020 (#1,059 → #1,241)
- 234 spots since 2015 (#1,007 → #1,241)
- Biggest jump: 269 spots in 1942 (#903 → #634)
- Biggest drop: 162 spots in 2003 (#887 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1961 at #226 (1,456 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 67 yrs · run 1941–2002
- Highest: 1 in 1,383 girls born in 1979 were named Jana (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,880 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #226 in 1961, was only 1 in 1,386 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.1% of all girls named Jana (11,612) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 64 | #2,768 (1928) | #3,993 |
| 1930s | 223 | #1,127 (1938) | #1,840 |
| 1940s | 1,661 | #466 (1949) | #660 |
| 1950s | 7,084 | #293 (1954) | #339 |
| 1960s | 11,612 | #226 (1961) | #257 |
| 1970s | 9,168 | #226 (1979) | #277 |
| 1980s | 7,267 | #246 (1980) | #345 |
| 1990s | 2,952 | #546 (1990) | #750 |
| 2000s | 2,395 | #887 (2002) | #1,005 |
| 2010s | 2,531 | #915 (2016) | #1,025 |
| 2020s | 1,228 | #1,059 (2020) | #1,177 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jana in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 2,472 of them was named Jana, which outranked 97.3% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 308,035 of them was named Jana, which outranked 23.7% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).