Janae

#1,684 for girls in 2025, 122 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls >99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1994 · 545 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
18,052
since 1939

Janae over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Janae has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201939peak #464, 1994girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,684122—
2024#1,406159—
2023#1,324171—
2022#1,373168—
2021#1,312172—
2020#1,236184—
2019#1,229191—
2018#1,190201—
2017#1,148216—
2016#1,068244—
2015#1,003269—
2014#915296—
2013#823326—
2012#808332—
2011#705394—
2010#700407—
2009#727400—
2008#789369—
2007#675434—
2006#676422—
2005#617458—
2004#578490—
2003#562494—
2002#522524—
2001#539495—
2000#471589—
1999#505516—
1998#479536—
1997#468535—
1996#505474—
1995#515471—
1994#464545—
1993#534449—
1992#496488—
1991#466525—
1990#502480—
1989#508461#6,9416
1988#509432—
1987#489442—
1986#726245—
1985#780216—
1984#754215—
1983#738221—
1982#765216—
1981#788206—
1980#835187—
1979#829188—
1978#932152—
1977#851173—
1976#732201—
1975#1,27887—
1974#1,49965—
1973#1,25483—
1972#1,60756—
1971#1,66555—
1970#1,65356—
1969#1,60955—
1968#1,83442—
1967#1,65947—
1966#1,85938—
1965#1,85438—
1964#1,94737—
1963#1,86739—
1962#2,21029—
1961#2,54323—
1960#2,43224—
1959#2,39523—
1958#2,44922—
1957#2,16826—
1956#2,72518—
1955#2,72517—
1954#3,01914—
1953#4,2268—
1952#3,55210—
1951#3,10612—
1950#4,3157—
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1948#3,8838—
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First appearance
1939

The first year at least five girls were named Janae! It came in at #3,782, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1940–1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Janae is popular in 1939

No state had 5 or more girls named Janae in 1939, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Janae
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 278 spots since 2024 (#1,406 → #1,684)
  • 448 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #1,684)
  • 681 spots since 2015 (#1,003 → #1,684)
  • Biggest jump: 546 spots in 1976 (#1,278 → #732)
  • Biggest drop: 119 spots in 1977 (#732 → #851)
Rise & fade · girls
55 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 1994 at #464 (545 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 21 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 39 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1976–2014
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,083
  • Highest: 1 in 3,083 girls born in 2000 were named Janae (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,174 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #464 in 1994, was only 1 in 3,277 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 27.8% of all girls named Janae (5,019) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s6#3,782 (1939)#3,782
1940s14#3,883 (1948)#4,324
1950s157#2,168 (1957)#3,068
1960s372#1,609 (1969)#1,981
1970s1,116#732 (1976)#1,230
1980s2,841#489 (1987)#689
1990s5,019#464 (1994)#493
2000s4,675#471 (2000)#616
2010s2,876#700 (2010)#959
2020s976#1,236 (2020)#1,389

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.

Janae in 1939

girls
#3,782
6 births · 1 in 182,769 girls

Top girls' names in 1939

  1. #1Mary54,900
  2. #2Barbara37,257
  3. #3Patricia29,701
  4. #4Betty23,639
  5. #5Shirley20,447
  6. #6Carol20,166
  7. #7Nancy19,723
  8. #8Judith16,625
  9. #9Dorothy15,169
  10. #10Margaret14,949
  11. #3,782Janae6
More about 1939

girls

1,096,612 girls got a published name in 1939; 1 in 182,769 of them was named Janae, which outranked 23.6% of the 4,950 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Janae
  1. #3,429Wyonia7
  2. #3,429Zera7
  3. #3,429Zerelda7
  4. #3,782Janae6
  5. #3,782Adonna6
  6. #3,782Alan6
  7. #3,782Alfretta6
  8. #4,250Abelina5
  9. #4,250Adelmira5
  10. #4,250Adine5

Tied with 467 names at #3,782; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1938
Risers
  1. ↑ 880April#1,805 → #925
  2. ↑ 865Karel#1,703 → #838
  3. ↑ 725Hedy#1,650 → #925
  4. ↑ 722Vivien#1,703 → #981
  5. ↑ 709Karon#1,547 → #838
Fallers
  1. ↓ 712Eulalia#972 → #1,684
  2. ↓ 446Shelvia#955 → #1,401
  3. ↓ 358Naoma#992 → #1,350
  4. ↓ 304Imelda#890 → #1,194
  5. ↓ 279Helaine#870 → #1,149

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1939 →