Janessa
#1,733 for girls in 2025, 117 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 544 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,722since 1954
Janessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Janessa has never cracked the top 500 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 | #1,733 | 117 |
| 2024 | #1,568 | 135 |
| 2023 | #1,356 | 166 |
| 2022 | #1,172 | 206 |
| 2021 | #1,169 | 209 |
| 2020 | #1,140 | 208 |
| 2019 | #1,094 | 227 |
| 2018 | #971 | 272 |
| 2017 | #890 | 303 |
| 2016 | #894 | 313 |
| 2015 | #716 | 397 |
| 2014 | #761 | 368 |
| 2013 | #695 | 407 |
| 2012 | #663 | 426 |
| 2011 | #630 | 451 |
| 2010 | #554 | 527 |
| 2009 | #545 | 556 |
| 2008 | #574 | 536 |
| 2007 | #557 | 547 |
| 2006 | #596 | 488 |
| 2005 | #583 | 488 |
| 2004 | #524 | 544 |
| 2003 | #590 | 465 |
| 2002 | #647 | 390 |
| 2001 | #703 | 352 |
| 2000 | #686 | 346 |
| 1999 | #706 | 321 |
| 1998 | #699 | 319 |
| 1997 | #705 | 304 |
| 1996 | #701 | 307 |
| 1995 | #765 | 264 |
| 1994 | #680 | 311 |
| 1993 | #760 | 272 |
| 1992 | #730 | 291 |
| 1991 | #610 | 370 |
| 1990 | #675 | 318 |
| 1989 | #785 | 246 |
| 1988 | #775 | 242 |
| 1987 | #822 | 212 |
| 1986 | #820 | 205 |
| 1985 | #1,002 | 152 |
| 1984 | #945 | 155 |
| 1983 | #1,049 | 132 |
| 1982 | #1,083 | 131 |
| 1981 | #1,068 | 132 |
| 1980 | #1,152 | 117 |
| 1979 | #1,496 | 79 |
| 1978 | #1,765 | 58 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 |
| 1976 | #2,439 | 33 |
| 1975 | #2,278 | 36 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,689 | 26 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,789 | 21 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
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| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #4,009 | 11 |
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| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janessa! It came in at #4,655, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1960, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Janessa is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#182 · 1 in 596
- New Mexico#202 · 1 in 708
- South Dakota#206 · 1 in 597
- California#407 · 1 in 2,112
- Nebraska#411 · 1 in 1,550
Best ever in a state: #113 in Alaska, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #182 | 5 | 1 in 596 |
| New Mexico | #202 | 10 | 1 in 708 |
| South Dakota | #206 | 5 | 1 in 597 |
| California | #407 | 99 | 1 in 2,112 |
| Nebraska | #411 | 5 | 1 in 1,550 |
| Washington | #440 | 15 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Florida | #446 | 36 | 1 in 2,212 |
| Nevada | #450 | 6 | 1 in 1,721 |
| Kansas | #526 | 6 | 1 in 2,193 |
| Illinois | #531 | 22 | 1 in 2,671 |
| Massachusetts | #532 | 9 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Wisconsin | #536 | 9 | 1 in 2,561 |
| Minnesota | #552 | 9 | 1 in 2,670 |
| Iowa | #563 | 5 | 1 in 2,506 |
| Arizona | #577 | 12 | 1 in 2,581 |
| Pennsylvania | #583 | 17 | 1 in 3,103 |
| Indiana | #659 | 9 | 1 in 3,337 |
| Colorado | #696 | 7 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Michigan | #732 | 10 | 1 in 4,117 |
| Utah | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,581 |
| Ohio | #736 | 12 | 1 in 4,298 |
| New York | #819 | 20 | 1 in 4,614 |
| Texas | #836 | 33 | 1 in 4,797 |
| Missouri | #937 | 5 | 1 in 5,384 |
| New Jersey | #996 | 6 | 1 in 6,086 |
| North Carolina | #1,055 | 7 | 1 in 6,279 |
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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 Janessa
- 165 spots since 2024 (#1,568 → #1,733)
- 593 spots since 2020 (#1,140 → #1,733)
- 1,017 spots since 2015 (#716 → #1,733)
- Biggest jump: 182 spots in 1986 (#1,002 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 178 spots in 2016 (#716 → #894)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2004 at #524 (544 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1986–2018
- Highest: 1 in 3,304 girls born in 2009 were named Janessa (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,737 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #524 in 2004, was only 1 in 3,375 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Janessa (4,712) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 31 | #4,161 (1956) | #4,557 |
| 1960s | 84 | #2,789 (1968) | #4,023 |
| 1970s | 362 | #1,496 (1979) | #2,531 |
| 1980s | 1,724 | #775 (1988) | #950 |
| 1990s | 3,077 | #610 (1991) | #703 |
| 2000s | 4,712 | #524 (2004) | #601 |
| 2010s | 3,691 | #554 (2010) | #787 |
| 2020s | 1,041 | #1,140 (2020) | #1,356 |
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.
Janessa in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 4,134 of them was named Janessa, which outranked 96.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).