Janay

Where Janay comes from

Janay hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #5,563 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Janay DeLoach born
    American track and field athlete
  3. 1987
    Peak, #387
    596 babies named Janay — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #718.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Janay DeLoach · American track and field athlete, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.