Janel
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1971 · 424 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,023since 1933
Janel over time
Rank among girls' names. Janel has never cracked the top 400 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | — | |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,757 | 27 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,041 | 26 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,624 | 43 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,779 | 64 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,663 | 69 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,017 | 56 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,240 | 78 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,970 | 92 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,142 | 78 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,801 | 96 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,580 | 106 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,350 | 130 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,449 | 114 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,133 | 160 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,090 | 163 | — | |
| 1994 | #977 | 189 | — | |
| 1993 | #930 | 203 | — | |
| 1992 | #885 | 223 | — | |
| 1991 | #847 | 236 | — | |
| 1990 | #966 | 194 | — | |
| 1989 | #800 | 238 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #734 | 255 | — | |
| 1987 | #666 | 280 | — | |
| 1986 | #750 | 231 | — | |
| 1985 | #863 | 185 | — | |
| 1984 | #778 | 207 | — | |
| 1983 | #726 | 228 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #636 | 283 | — | |
| 1981 | #568 | 324 | — | |
| 1980 | #507 | 397 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #530 | 359 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #475 | 413 | — | |
| 1977 | #491 | 387 | — | |
| 1976 | #514 | 346 | — | |
| 1975 | #513 | 346 | — | |
| 1974 | #545 | 310 | — | |
| 1973 | #512 | 333 | — | |
| 1972 | #495 | 357 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #470 | 424 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #508 | 386 | — | |
| 1969 | #559 | 312 | — | |
| 1968 | #607 | 252 | — | |
| 1967 | #723 | 184 | — | |
| 1966 | #952 | 114 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,019 | 105 | — | |
| 1964 | #917 | 130 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,043 | 106 | — | |
| 1962 | #967 | 121 | — | |
| 1961 | #908 | 142 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,025 | 110 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,023 | 107 | — | |
| 1958 | #988 | 110 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,033 | 103 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,105 | 87 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,087 | 86 | — | |
| 1954 | #958 | 102 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,082 | 79 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,028 | 83 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,019 | 83 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,076 | 73 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,154 | 62 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,223 | 55 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,461 | 41 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,228 | 18 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,096 | 16 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,386 | 12 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,356 | 29 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janel! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1933–1934, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Janel is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#206 · 1 in 1,259
- Hawaii#213 · 1 in 758
- Pennsylvania#244 · 1 in 1,500
- Minnesota#273 · 1 in 1,896
- Iowa#286 · 1 in 2,065
Best ever in a state: #101 in North Dakota, 1961.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #206 | 23 | 1 in 1,259 |
| Hawaii | #213 | 6 | 1 in 758 |
| Pennsylvania | #244 | 44 | 1 in 1,500 |
| Minnesota | #273 | 14 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Iowa | #286 | 9 | 1 in 2,065 |
| New Mexico | #301 | 6 | 1 in 1,364 |
| Michigan | #327 | 25 | 1 in 2,302 |
| Washington | #330 | 11 | 1 in 2,086 |
| Indiana | #334 | 15 | 1 in 2,320 |
| Kansas | #348 | 6 | 1 in 2,239 |
| Colorado | #355 | 8 | 1 in 2,162 |
| Maryland | #361 | 8 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Illinois | #377 | 28 | 1 in 2,532 |
| New York | #415 | 35 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Missouri | #423 | 9 | 1 in 3,406 |
| New Jersey | #432 | 12 | 1 in 3,023 |
| Massachusetts | #513 | 6 | 1 in 4,943 |
| California | #520 | 45 | 1 in 3,407 |
| Florida | #536 | 12 | 1 in 3,669 |
| Ohio | #609 | 11 | 1 in 6,269 |
| North Carolina | #623 | 6 | 1 in 5,395 |
| Texas | #882 | 13 | 1 in 7,953 |
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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 Janel
- 3,985 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #10,917)
- 6,160 spots since 2020 (#4,757 → #10,917)
- 6,429 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 229 spots in 1967 (#952 → #723)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 1990 (#800 → #966)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1971 at #470 (424 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1966–1994
- Highest: 1 in 3,709 girls born in 1978 were named Janel (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #470 in 1971, was only 1 in 3,924 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.4% of all girls named Janel (3,661) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 80 | #1,356 (1935) | #2,911 |
| 1940s | 244 | #1,154 (1949) | #2,294 |
| 1950s | 913 | #958 (1954) | #1,040 |
| 1960s | 1,576 | #559 (1969) | #872 |
| 1970s | 3,661 | #470 (1971) | #505 |
| 1980s | 2,628 | #507 (1980) | #703 |
| 1990s | 1,718 | #847 (1991) | #1,121 |
| 2000s | 750 | #1,765 (2001) | #2,421 |
| 2010s | 347 | #3,624 (2010) | #4,258 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,757 (2020) | #7,007 |
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.
Janel in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 3,709 of them was named Janel, which outranked 95.9% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.