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

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Peak · girls
1997 · 101 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,099
since 1960

Janai over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Janai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201960peak #1,585, 1997girls
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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#3,64541#10,6956
2024#2,93056—
2023#3,42846—
2022#3,76540—
2021#3,11252—
2020#2,93155—
2019#2,70963#12,1455
2018#2,81060—
2017#2,71363—
2016#3,06054—
2015#2,47173—
2014#2,61567#12,1085
2013#2,62667#9,6557
2012#2,77063—
2011#2,34679—
2010#2,20288—
2009#2,61470—
2008#2,33483#9,0198
2007#2,19890#12,3675
2006#1,809113#12,0555
2005#1,894102#7,6409
2004#2,13584#11,3565
2003#1,786105#6,25811
2002#2,04684#9,3926
2001#1,81997—
2000#2,21371#9,1126
1999#1,82887#7,8747
1998#1,86782—
1997#1,585101#6,1009
1996#2,05867—
1995#1,71585—
1994#1,79880—
1993#2,28956—
1992#2,19161—
1991#2,38853—
1990#2,02966—
1989#1,96565—
1988#1,83967—
1987#1,73369—
1986#3,64523—
1985#3,73022—
1984#3,52723—
1983#3,06527—
1982#3,41824—
1981#4,16218—
1980#3,21526—
1979#3,14726—
1978#3,19624—
1977#5,53211—
1976#5,60110—
1975#7,9846—
1974#6,9007—
1973#6,6667—
1972#6,5587—
1971#6,0068—
1970#6,3627—
1969#6,6176—
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First appearance
1960

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1997 at #1,585 (101 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 25 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,825
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 29.0% of all girls named Janai (899) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s18#5,273 (1966)#6,093
1970s113#3,147 (1979)#5,795
1980s364#1,733 (1987)#3,030
1990s738#1,585 (1997)#1,975
2000s899#1,786 (2003)#2,085
2010s677#2,202 (2010)#2,632
2020s290#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

girls
#6,390
5 births · 1 in 404,388 girls

Top girls' names in 1960

  1. #1Mary51,472
  2. #2Susan39,208
  3. #3Linda37,316
  4. #4Karen36,378
  5. #5Donna34,138
  6. #6Lisa33,693
  7. #7Patricia32,113
  8. #8Debra26,732
  9. #9Cynthia26,706
  10. #10Deborah25,266
  11. #6,390Janai5
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).

Ranked beside Janai
  1. #5,696Ziva6
  2. #5,696Zonya6
  3. #5,696Zorina6
  4. #6,390Janai5
  5. #6,390Adeana5
  6. #6,390Adelfa5
  7. #6,390Adrienna5

Tied with 942 names at #6,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1959
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,798Lisha#2,395 → #597
  2. ↑ 1,223Elana#2,108 → #885
  3. ↑ 667Leisha#1,537 → #870
  4. ↑ 513Misty#1,214 → #701
  5. ↑ 462Loriann#1,396 → #934
Fallers
  1. ↓ 421Taryn#771 → #1,192
  2. ↓ 335Cheryll#993 → #1,328
  3. ↓ 305Marilynn#724 → #1,029
  4. ↓ 304Drema#997 → #1,301
  5. ↓ 258Merrie#978 → #1,236

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

See the top 100 for 1960 →