Janaya
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 176 births
- Debut · girls
- 41 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,965since 1973
Janaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Janaya 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2021 | #2,416 | 74 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 |
| 2019 | #2,752 | 61 |
| 2018 | #2,711 | 63 |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 |
| 2013 | #2,032 | 95 |
| 2012 | #2,205 | 85 |
| 2011 | #1,789 | 113 |
| 2010 | #1,536 | 145 |
| 2009 | #1,469 | 158 |
| 2008 | #1,295 | 192 |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 |
| 2006 | #1,212 | 198 |
| 2005 | #1,210 | 189 |
| 2004 | #1,201 | 186 |
| 2003 | #1,348 | 150 |
| 2002 | #1,165 | 176 |
| 2001 | #1,299 | 148 |
| 2000 | #1,412 | 131 |
| 1999 | #1,502 | 114 |
| 1998 | #1,709 | 93 |
| 1997 | #1,914 | 76 |
| 1996 | #2,084 | 66 |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 |
| 1994 | #2,627 | 47 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janaya! It came in at #1,979, and was given to 41 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Janaya is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#482 · 1 in 2,982
- Virginia#565 · 1 in 3,510
- South Carolina#594 · 1 in 3,357
- Pennsylvania#671 · 1 in 5,090
- Washington#754 · 1 in 4,789
Best ever in a state: #315 in Louisiana, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #482 | 5 | 1 in 2,982 |
| Virginia | #565 | 10 | 1 in 3,510 |
| South Carolina | #594 | 5 | 1 in 3,357 |
| Pennsylvania | #671 | 11 | 1 in 5,090 |
| Washington | #754 | 6 | 1 in 4,789 |
| Maryland | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,804 |
| New Jersey | #765 | 8 | 1 in 5,175 |
| Massachusetts | #801 | 5 | 1 in 6,291 |
| New York | #918 | 15 | 1 in 6,531 |
| Ohio | #987 | 7 | 1 in 8,510 |
| Georgia | #1,013 | 7 | 1 in 6,891 |
| Michigan | #1,186 | 5 | 1 in 9,984 |
| Illinois | #1,382 | 6 | 1 in 11,730 |
| Florida | #1,516 | 6 | 1 in 12,889 |
| Texas | #2,698 | 5 | 1 in 30,643 |
| California | #2,882 | 6 | 1 in 37,046 |
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See more about Janaya
- 323 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #2,607)
- 939 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #2,607)
- 52 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2002 at #1,165 (176 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,602 girls born in 2006 were named Janaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,165 in 2002, was only 1 in 10,210 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.5% of all girls named Janaya (1,724) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 134 | #1,979 (1973) | #4,331 |
| 1980s | 269 | #2,222 (1989) | #3,585 |
| 1990s | 624 | #1,502 (1999) | #2,319 |
| 2000s | 1,724 | #1,165 (2002) | #1,287 |
| 2010s | 865 | #1,536 (2010) | #2,288 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,416 (2021) | #2,931 |
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.
Janaya in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 12,166 of them was named Janaya, which outranked 92.8% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,295Edna149
- #1,295Janiyah149
- #1,295Kerry149
- #1,299Janaya148
- #1,299Brissa148
- #1,299Dixie148
- #1,299Jaci148
- #1,304Galilea147
- #1,304Ivory147
- #1,304Jailene147
Tied with 4 names at #1,299; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.