Janai
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 97.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 101 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,099since 1960
Janai over time
Rank among girls' names. Janai has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #3,645 | 41 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,709 | 63 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,810 | 60 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #2,626 | 67 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,202 | 88 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,334 | 83 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #2,198 | 90 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,809 | 113 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #1,786 | 105 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #2,046 | 84 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #1,819 | 97 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #1,828 | 87 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #1,867 | 82 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,585 | 101 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,058 | 67 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,715 | 85 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,798 | 80 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,289 | 56 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,191 | 61 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,388 | 53 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,029 | 66 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,965 | 65 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,839 | 67 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,733 | 69 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,645 | 23 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | — | |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janai! It came in at #6,390, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Janai is popular in 1960
No state had 5 or more girls named Janai in 1960, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Janai
- 715 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #3,645)
- 714 spots since 2020 (#2,931 → #3,645)
- 1,174 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #3,645)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1997 at #1,585 (101 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,825 girls born in 2006 were named Janai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,585 in 1997, was only 1 in 17,235 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.0% of all girls named Janai (899) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #5,273 (1966) | #6,093 |
| 1970s | 113 | #3,147 (1979) | #5,795 |
| 1980s | 364 | #1,733 (1987) | #3,030 |
| 1990s | 738 | #1,585 (1997) | #1,975 |
| 2000s | 899 | #1,786 (2003) | #2,085 |
| 2010s | 677 | #2,202 (2010) | #2,632 |
| 2020s | 290 | #2,930 (2024) | #3,302 |
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.
Janai in 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 404,388 of them was named Janai, which outranked 12.8% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 942 names at #6,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.