Janae
#1,684 for girls in 2025, 122 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 545 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 18,052since 1939
Janae over time
Rank among girls' names. Janae 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,684 | 122 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,406 | 159 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,324 | 171 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,373 | 168 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,312 | 172 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,236 | 184 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,229 | 191 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,190 | 201 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,148 | 216 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,068 | 244 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,003 | 269 | — | |
| 2014 | #915 | 296 | — | |
| 2013 | #823 | 326 | — | |
| 2012 | #808 | 332 | — | |
| 2011 | #705 | 394 | — | |
| 2010 | #700 | 407 | — | |
| 2009 | #727 | 400 | — | |
| 2008 | #789 | 369 | — | |
| 2007 | #675 | 434 | — | |
| 2006 | #676 | 422 | — | |
| 2005 | #617 | 458 | — | |
| 2004 | #578 | 490 | — | |
| 2003 | #562 | 494 | — | |
| 2002 | #522 | 524 | — | |
| 2001 | #539 | 495 | — | |
| 2000 | #471 | 589 | — | |
| 1999 | #505 | 516 | — | |
| 1998 | #479 | 536 | — | |
| 1997 | #468 | 535 | — | |
| 1996 | #505 | 474 | — | |
| 1995 | #515 | 471 | — | |
| 1994 | #464 | 545 | — | |
| 1993 | #534 | 449 | — | |
| 1992 | #496 | 488 | — | |
| 1991 | #466 | 525 | — | |
| 1990 | #502 | 480 | — | |
| 1989 | #508 | 461 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #509 | 432 | — | |
| 1987 | #489 | 442 | — | |
| 1986 | #726 | 245 | — | |
| 1985 | #780 | 216 | — | |
| 1984 | #754 | 215 | — | |
| 1983 | #738 | 221 | — | |
| 1982 | #765 | 216 | — | |
| 1981 | #788 | 206 | — | |
| 1980 | #835 | 187 | — | |
| 1979 | #829 | 188 | — | |
| 1978 | #932 | 152 | — | |
| 1977 | #851 | 173 | — | |
| 1976 | #732 | 201 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,278 | 87 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,499 | 65 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,254 | 83 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,665 | 55 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,653 | 56 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,609 | 55 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,834 | 42 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,659 | 47 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,859 | 38 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,854 | 38 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,947 | 37 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,867 | 39 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,449 | 22 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,168 | 26 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janae! It came in at #3,782, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1940–1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Janae is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#488 · 1 in 2,116
- Kentucky#624 · 1 in 2,980
- Georgia#688 · 1 in 3,366
- Missouri#821 · 1 in 4,329
- Florida#826 · 1 in 4,776
Best ever in a state: #65 in District of Columbia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #488 | 11 | 1 in 2,116 |
| Kentucky | #624 | 6 | 1 in 2,980 |
| Georgia | #688 | 14 | 1 in 3,366 |
| Missouri | #821 | 6 | 1 in 4,329 |
| Florida | #826 | 18 | 1 in 4,776 |
| Louisiana | #829 | 5 | 1 in 3,977 |
| North Carolina | #831 | 10 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Indiana | #841 | 7 | 1 in 4,300 |
| Illinois | #962 | 10 | 1 in 5,554 |
| New Jersey | #1,006 | 6 | 1 in 5,994 |
| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| Texas | #1,057 | 25 | 1 in 6,395 |
| Washington | #1,106 | 5 | 1 in 6,213 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,118 | 7 | 1 in 7,306 |
| Ohio | #1,153 | 7 | 1 in 7,397 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
| California | #1,520 | 17 | 1 in 11,515 |
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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 Janae
- 278 spots since 2024 (#1,406 → #1,684)
- 448 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #1,684)
- 681 spots since 2015 (#1,003 → #1,684)
- Biggest jump: 546 spots in 1976 (#1,278 → #732)
- Biggest drop: 119 spots in 1977 (#732 → #851)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 1994 at #464 (545 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1976–2014
- Highest: 1 in 3,083 girls born in 2000 were named Janae (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,174 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #464 in 1994, was only 1 in 3,277 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.8% of all girls named Janae (5,019) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,782 (1939) | #3,782 |
| 1940s | 14 | #3,883 (1948) | #4,324 |
| 1950s | 157 | #2,168 (1957) | #3,068 |
| 1960s | 372 | #1,609 (1969) | #1,981 |
| 1970s | 1,116 | #732 (1976) | #1,230 |
| 1980s | 2,841 | #489 (1987) | #689 |
| 1990s | 5,019 | #464 (1994) | #493 |
| 2000s | 4,675 | #471 (2000) | #616 |
| 2010s | 2,876 | #700 (2010) | #959 |
| 2020s | 976 | #1,236 (2020) | #1,389 |
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.
Janae in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,993 of them was named Janae, which outranked 93.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,141Keily217
- #1,141Leela217
- #1,141Lindsay217
- #1,148Janae216
- #1,148Alaysia216
- #1,148Beatrix216
- #1,148Sherlyn216
- #1,152Ally215
- #1,152Natalya215
- #1,154Briley214
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.