Janell
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · Last seen for boys in 2003 at #10,894
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 416 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,733since 1914
Janell over time
Rank among girls' names. Janell 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 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,039 | 36 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,080 | 54 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,059 | 96 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,695 | 131 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,786 | 123 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,792 | 119 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,771 | 117 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,160 | 85 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #1,654 | 111 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,750 | 102 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,456 | 126 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,422 | 123 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,226 | 149 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,218 | 147 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,219 | 145 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,169 | 147 | — | |
| 1994 | #973 | 191 | — | |
| 1993 | #999 | 185 | — | |
| 1992 | #904 | 216 | — | |
| 1991 | #942 | 202 | — | |
| 1990 | #864 | 227 | — | |
| 1989 | #861 | 216 | — | |
| 1988 | #780 | 241 | — | |
| 1987 | #738 | 245 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #734 | 242 | — | |
| 1985 | #686 | 260 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #618 | 288 | — | |
| 1983 | #611 | 286 | — | |
| 1982 | #590 | 308 | — | |
| 1981 | #562 | 330 | — | |
| 1980 | #547 | 340 | — | |
| 1979 | #490 | 416 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #537 | 334 | — | |
| 1977 | #628 | 267 | — | |
| 1976 | #566 | 293 | — | |
| 1975 | #562 | 298 | — | |
| 1974 | #701 | 209 | — | |
| 1973 | #605 | 258 | — | |
| 1972 | #670 | 223 | — | |
| 1971 | #608 | 280 | — | |
| 1970 | #621 | 274 | — | |
| 1969 | #618 | 258 | — | |
| 1968 | #594 | 261 | — | |
| 1967 | #617 | 236 | — | |
| 1966 | #623 | 233 | — | |
| 1965 | #562 | 286 | — | |
| 1964 | #635 | 259 | — | |
| 1963 | #692 | 213 | — | |
| 1962 | #591 | 282 | — | |
| 1961 | #610 | 275 | — | |
| 1960 | #663 | 234 | — | |
| 1959 | #677 | 218 | — | |
| 1958 | #673 | 216 | — | |
| 1957 | #630 | 239 | — | |
| 1956 | #654 | 215 | — | |
| 1955 | #663 | 199 | — | |
| 1954 | #548 | 263 | — | |
| 1953 | #628 | 200 | — | |
| 1952 | #662 | 179 | — | |
| 1951 | #721 | 147 | — | |
| 1950 | #675 | 158 | — | |
| 1949 | #641 | 168 | — | |
| 1948 | #881 | 97 | — | |
| 1947 | #719 | 140 | — | |
| 1946 | #776 | 112 | — | |
| 1945 | #842 | 80 | — | |
| 1944 | #793 | 93 | — | |
| 1943 | #762 | 103 | — | |
| 1942 | #873 | 78 | — | |
| 1941 | #821 | 77 | — | |
| 1940 | #772 | 83 | — | |
| 1939 | #766 | 79 | — | |
| 1938 | #792 | 79 | — | |
| 1937 | #796 | 74 | — | |
| 1936 | #711 | 88 | — | |
| 1935 | #813 | 70 | — | |
| 1934 | #888 | 59 | — | |
| 1933 | #999 | 48 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,015 | 48 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,459 | 26 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,403 | 30 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,257 | 35 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,541 | 27 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,097 | 48 | — | |
| 1926 | #748 | 92 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,795 | 23 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,732 | 12 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,282 | 16 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,079 | 18 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
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| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janell! It came in at #3,618, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Janell is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#712 · 1 in 4,788
- New York#777 · 1 in 5,596
- New Jersey#877 · 1 in 6,914
- Michigan#886 · 1 in 7,360
- Illinois#910 · 1 in 7,042
Best ever in a state: #125 in North Dakota, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #712 | 5 | 1 in 4,788 |
| New York | #777 | 18 | 1 in 5,596 |
| New Jersey | #877 | 6 | 1 in 6,914 |
| Michigan | #886 | 7 | 1 in 7,360 |
| Illinois | #910 | 10 | 1 in 7,042 |
| Florida | #957 | 10 | 1 in 7,428 |
| California | #1,039 | 25 | 1 in 8,841 |
| Ohio | #1,060 | 6 | 1 in 10,270 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,156 | 5 | 1 in 11,660 |
| Texas | #1,435 | 11 | 1 in 13,040 |
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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 Janell
- 2,286 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #6,325)
- 2,547 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #6,325)
- 2,792 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 1,047 spots in 1926 (#1,795 → #748)
- Biggest drop: 349 spots in 1927 (#748 → #1,097)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1979 at #490 (416 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1933–1994
- Highest: 1 in 3,859 girls born in 1979 were named Janell (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 18.1% of all girls named Janell (2,852) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | #3,244 (1918) | #3,590 |
| 1920s | 296 | #748 (1926) | #1,922 |
| 1930s | 601 | #711 (1936) | #964 |
| 1940s | 1,031 | #641 (1949) | #788 |
| 1950s | 2,034 | #548 (1954) | #653 |
| 1960s | 2,537 | #562 (1965) | #621 |
| 1970s | 2,852 | #490 (1979) | #599 |
| 1980s | 2,756 | #547 (1980) | #673 |
| 1990s | 1,732 | #864 (1990) | #1,094 |
| 2000s | 1,128 | #1,456 (2000) | #1,760 |
| 2010s | 569 | #2,059 (2010) | #3,183 |
| 2020s | 162 | #3,778 (2020) | #5,067 |
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.
Janell in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 11,859 of them was named Janell, which outranked 92.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).