Jania
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 194 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,021since 1952
Jania over time
Rank among girls' names. Jania 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #3,639 | 42 |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 |
| 2022 | #2,995 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,892 | 58 |
| 2020 | #3,141 | 50 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 |
| 2011 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 |
| 2009 | #1,838 | 116 |
| 2008 | #1,677 | 133 |
| 2007 | #1,357 | 178 |
| 2006 | #1,260 | 190 |
| 2005 | #1,185 | 194 |
| 2004 | #1,252 | 173 |
| 2003 | #1,191 | 180 |
| 2002 | #1,328 | 146 |
| 2001 | #1,403 | 135 |
| 2000 | #1,472 | 125 |
| 1999 | #1,786 | 89 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 |
| 1997 | #2,423 | 54 |
| 1996 | #2,398 | 54 |
| 1995 | #3,220 | 35 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
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| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jania! It came in at #4,483, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1956, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jania is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#426 · 1 in 1,938
- Mississippi#442 · 1 in 1,929
- Louisiana#634 · 1 in 3,281
- North Carolina#638 · 1 in 3,492
- Illinois#680 · 1 in 3,951
Best ever in a state: #324 in Mississippi, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #426 | 9 | 1 in 1,938 |
| Mississippi | #442 | 6 | 1 in 1,929 |
| Louisiana | #634 | 6 | 1 in 3,281 |
| North Carolina | #638 | 13 | 1 in 3,492 |
| Illinois | #680 | 17 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Alabama | #717 | 5 | 1 in 3,947 |
| Florida | #727 | 19 | 1 in 4,511 |
| Michigan | #741 | 10 | 1 in 4,736 |
| Georgia | #774 | 12 | 1 in 4,283 |
| Virginia | #861 | 7 | 1 in 5,301 |
| Indiana | #946 | 5 | 1 in 6,501 |
| Tennessee | #964 | 5 | 1 in 6,215 |
| New York | #1,011 | 14 | 1 in 6,791 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,015 | 7 | 1 in 7,837 |
| Ohio | #1,036 | 7 | 1 in 8,183 |
| Texas | #1,525 | 13 | 1 in 12,354 |
| California | #2,540 | 8 | 1 in 28,803 |
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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 Jania
- 2,278 spots since 2024 (#3,639 → #5,917)
- 2,776 spots since 2020 (#3,141 → #5,917)
- 1,514 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 2005 at #1,185 (194 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,525 girls born in 2005 were named Jania (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.0% of all girls named Jania (1,570) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 13 | #4,483 (1952) | #4,930 |
| 1960s | 44 | #4,011 (1962) | #6,071 |
| 1970s | 90 | #4,235 (1977) | #5,839 |
| 1980s | 139 | #4,347 (1982) | #5,289 |
| 1990s | 397 | #1,786 (1999) | #3,583 |
| 2000s | 1,570 | #1,185 (2005) | #1,396 |
| 2010s | 490 | #2,136 (2010) | #3,537 |
| 2020s | 278 | #2,892 (2021) | #3,613 |
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.
Jania in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 9,525 of them was named Jania, which outranked 93.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).