Janay
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 596 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,832since 1952
Janay over time
Rank among girls' names. Janay has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 |
| 2011 | #1,780 | 114 |
| 2010 | #1,809 | 113 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 |
| 2007 | #2,163 | 92 |
| 2006 | #2,081 | 94 |
| 2005 | #1,589 | 128 |
| 2004 | #1,871 | 101 |
| 2003 | #1,625 | 118 |
| 2002 | #1,520 | 124 |
| 2001 | #1,523 | 122 |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 |
| 1998 | #1,265 | 143 |
| 1997 | #967 | 204 |
| 1996 | #985 | 192 |
| 1995 | #808 | 245 |
| 1994 | #882 | 221 |
| 1993 | #1,058 | 173 |
| 1992 | #810 | 248 |
| 1991 | #783 | 261 |
| 1990 | #718 | 292 |
| 1989 | #652 | 314 |
| 1988 | #513 | 430 |
| 1987 | #387 | 596 |
| 1986 | #2,195 | 47 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 |
| 1984 | #2,382 | 40 |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 |
| 1979 | #2,621 | 34 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #2,835 | 25 |
| 1973 | #1,388 | 71 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 |
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| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janay! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Janay is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#69 · 1 in 271
- Maryland#136 · 1 in 729
- Florida#180 · 1 in 1,085
- Virginia#186 · 1 in 1,121
- Louisiana#203 · 1 in 1,144
Best ever in a state: #69 in District of Columbia, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #69 | 21 | 1 in 271 |
| Maryland | #136 | 35 | 1 in 729 |
| Florida | #180 | 64 | 1 in 1,085 |
| Virginia | #186 | 31 | 1 in 1,121 |
| Louisiana | #203 | 23 | 1 in 1,144 |
| South Carolina | #233 | 14 | 1 in 1,298 |
| Michigan | #249 | 35 | 1 in 1,656 |
| Ohio | #255 | 40 | 1 in 1,693 |
| Georgia | #291 | 21 | 1 in 1,866 |
| Alabama | #306 | 11 | 1 in 1,958 |
| New York | #328 | 55 | 1 in 2,034 |
| Connecticut | #352 | 7 | 1 in 2,606 |
| Kansas | #365 | 6 | 1 in 2,368 |
| Mississippi | #386 | 6 | 1 in 2,217 |
| North Carolina | #392 | 13 | 1 in 2,866 |
| Tennessee | #412 | 9 | 1 in 3,135 |
| Wisconsin | #415 | 8 | 1 in 3,619 |
| New Jersey | #433 | 14 | 1 in 3,112 |
| Kentucky | #481 | 5 | 1 in 4,177 |
| Oklahoma | #496 | 5 | 1 in 3,584 |
| Missouri | #513 | 7 | 1 in 4,463 |
| Washington | #534 | 7 | 1 in 3,884 |
| Massachusetts | #550 | 7 | 1 in 5,126 |
| Illinois | #551 | 17 | 1 in 4,269 |
| Pennsylvania | #555 | 14 | 1 in 4,944 |
| California | #565 | 54 | 1 in 3,984 |
| Indiana | #578 | 6 | 1 in 5,353 |
| Texas | #669 | 24 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Arizona | #671 | 5 | 1 in 4,886 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Janay
- 118 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #7,133)
- 1,273 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #7,133)
- 4,074 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #7,133)
- Biggest jump: 1,808 spots in 1987 (#2,195 → #387)
- Biggest drop: 298 spots in 1998 (#967 → #1,265)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1987 at #387 (596 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1987–1992
- Highest: 1 in 2,917 girls born in 1987 were named Janay (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Janay (2,101) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #4,193 (1958) | #5,334 |
| 1960s | 69 | #3,656 (1967) | #4,635 |
| 1970s | 291 | #1,388 (1973) | #3,077 |
| 1980s | 1,596 | #387 (1987) | #1,989 |
| 1990s | 2,101 | #718 (1990) | #971 |
| 2000s | 1,061 | #1,520 (2002) | #1,861 |
| 2010s | 591 | #1,780 (2011) | #3,408 |
| 2020s | 104 | #4,413 (2021) | #6,906 |
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.
Janay in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 2,917 of them was named Janay, which outranked 97.1% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).