Janiyah

Where Janiyah comes from

Modern American coinage.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janiyah
Along the way
  1. 1995
    First appearance
    #7,514 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #333
    994 babies named Janiyah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #657.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Janiyah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.