Janie

Where Janie comes from

From Jane + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #146 among girls — 96 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #133
    134 babies named Janie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    Janie Fricke born
    American country singer
  4. 1970
    Janie Eickhoff born
    American bicycle racer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Jane.
Namesakes
  • Janie Fricke · American country singer, born 1947
  • Janie Eickhoff · American bicycle racer, born 1970
  • Janie Dee · British actress, born 1962
  • Janie Wagstaff · American swimmer, born 1974
  • Janie Allan · leading source of funding and a Scottish activist for the militant suffragette movement of the early 20th century., 1868–1968

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.