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.
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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 16,825 of them was named Janai, which outranked 91.0% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,806Harmonie114
- #1,806Jalisa114
- #1,806Preslee114
- #1,809Janai113
- #1,809Chantel113
- #1,809Dalilah113
- #1,809Ivonne113
- #1,825Aislinn112
- #1,825Brooklynne112
- #1,825Emili112
Tied with 15 names at #1,809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 411,055 of them was named Janai, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,992 names at #12,055; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.