Janine
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · Last seen for boys in 1967 at #3,559
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1960 · 1,380 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 33,508since 1914
Janine over time
Rank among girls' names. Janine has never cracked the top 200 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 | #5,722 | 21 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,826 | 62 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,088 | 89 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,855 | 102 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,866 | 95 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,674 | 105 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,431 | 122 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,382 | 124 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,273 | 138 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,079 | 171 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,023 | 178 | — | |
| 1994 | #961 | 193 | — | |
| 1993 | #803 | 250 | — | |
| 1992 | #734 | 288 | — | |
| 1991 | #734 | 283 | — | |
| 1990 | #659 | 337 | — | |
| 1989 | #639 | 328 | — | |
| 1988 | #565 | 366 | — | |
| 1987 | #575 | 345 | — | |
| 1986 | #540 | 376 | — | |
| 1985 | #484 | 426 | — | |
| 1984 | #422 | 507 | — | |
| 1983 | #401 | 541 | — | |
| 1982 | #410 | 560 | — | |
| 1981 | #429 | 496 | — | |
| 1980 | #427 | 507 | — | |
| 1979 | #410 | 524 | — | |
| 1978 | #417 | 484 | — | |
| 1977 | #422 | 480 | — | |
| 1976 | #408 | 495 | — | |
| 1975 | #410 | 491 | — | |
| 1974 | #385 | 541 | — | |
| 1973 | #365 | 584 | — | |
| 1972 | #367 | 594 | — | |
| 1971 | #321 | 830 | — | |
| 1970 | #281 | 1,044 | — | |
| 1969 | #303 | 893 | — | |
| 1968 | #295 | 882 | — | |
| 1967 | #259 | 1,056 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #238 | 1,238 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #232 | 1,357 | — | |
| 1964 | #251 | 1,240 | — | |
| 1963 | #261 | 1,135 | — | |
| 1962 | #246 | 1,289 | — | |
| 1961 | #242 | 1,288 | — | |
| 1960 | #231 | 1,380 | — | |
| 1959 | #340 | 774 | — | |
| 1958 | #445 | 459 | — | |
| 1957 | #376 | 581 | — | |
| 1956 | #363 | 578 | — | |
| 1955 | #314 | 745 | — | |
| 1954 | #297 | 813 | — | |
| 1953 | #311 | 694 | — | |
| 1952 | #346 | 564 | — | |
| 1951 | #401 | 421 | — | |
| 1950 | #446 | 327 | — | |
| 1949 | #504 | 258 | — | |
| 1948 | #482 | 277 | — | |
| 1947 | #479 | 293 | — | |
| 1946 | #583 | 188 | — | |
| 1945 | #773 | 93 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,029 | 58 | — | |
| 1943 | #992 | 64 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,046 | 56 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,271 | 36 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,080 | 45 | — | |
| 1939 | #953 | 55 | — | |
| 1938 | #931 | 58 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,330 | 30 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,186 | 36 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,307 | 31 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,079 | 42 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,400 | 27 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,213 | 35 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,375 | 29 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,460 | 28 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,447 | 28 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | — | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janine! It came in at #2,876, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Janine is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#168 · 1 in 864
- New York#170 · 1 in 863
- Pennsylvania#179 · 1 in 1,000
- Massachusetts#241 · 1 in 1,561
- District of Columbia#263 · 1 in 1,106
Best ever in a state: #106 in Wyoming, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #168 | 42 | 1 in 864 |
| New York | #170 | 114 | 1 in 863 |
| Pennsylvania | #179 | 66 | 1 in 1,000 |
| Massachusetts | #241 | 19 | 1 in 1,561 |
| District of Columbia | #263 | 5 | 1 in 1,106 |
| Washington | #361 | 10 | 1 in 2,294 |
| California | #376 | 69 | 1 in 2,222 |
| Connecticut | #396 | 5 | 1 in 2,838 |
| Wisconsin | #399 | 8 | 1 in 3,621 |
| Maryland | #401 | 7 | 1 in 2,608 |
| Florida | #428 | 16 | 1 in 2,751 |
| Virginia | #452 | 8 | 1 in 3,480 |
| Colorado | #492 | 5 | 1 in 3,459 |
| Illinois | #495 | 20 | 1 in 3,545 |
| Minnesota | #506 | 5 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Michigan | #515 | 13 | 1 in 4,427 |
| Missouri | #570 | 6 | 1 in 5,109 |
| Ohio | #609 | 11 | 1 in 6,269 |
| Texas | #978 | 11 | 1 in 9,399 |
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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 Janine
- 240 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,722)
- 554 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #5,722)
- 2,468 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #5,722)
- Biggest jump: 399 spots in 1938 (#1,330 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 158 spots in 1994 (#803 → #961)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1960 at #231 (1,380 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 53 yrs · run 1945–1994
- Highest: 1 in 1,301 girls born in 1965 were named Janine (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #231 in 1960, was only 1 in 1,465 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.1% of all girls named Janine (11,758) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | #2,876 (1914) | #4,138 |
| 1920s | 56 | #1,447 (1929) | #3,542 |
| 1930s | 371 | #931 (1938) | #1,223 |
| 1940s | 1,368 | #479 (1947) | #824 |
| 1950s | 5,956 | #297 (1954) | #364 |
| 1960s | 11,758 | #231 (1960) | #256 |
| 1970s | 6,067 | #281 (1970) | #379 |
| 1980s | 4,452 | #401 (1983) | #489 |
| 1990s | 2,084 | #659 (1990) | #1,008 |
| 2000s | 812 | #1,674 (2000) | #2,364 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,935 (2012) | #3,766 |
| 2020s | 140 | #4,413 (2021) | #5,422 |
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.
Janine in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 3,165 of them was named Janine, which outranked 96.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.