Janiya
#1,962 for girls in 2025, 98 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 914 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,103since 1990
Janiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Janiya has never cracked the top 300 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,962 | 98 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,771 | 114 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,548 | 137 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,692 | 123 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,491 | 142 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,668 | 123 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,423 | 157 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,229 | 190 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,268 | 186 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,088 | 237 | — | |
| 2015 | #997 | 270 | — | |
| 2014 | #852 | 323 | — | |
| 2013 | #780 | 348 | — | |
| 2012 | #667 | 425 | — | |
| 2011 | #538 | 539 | — | |
| 2010 | #447 | 687 | — | |
| 2009 | #385 | 833 | — | |
| 2008 | #362 | 914 | — | |
| 2007 | #366 | 889 | — | |
| 2006 | #386 | 838 | — | |
| 2005 | #370 | 845 | — | |
| 2004 | #371 | 843 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #548 | 506 | — | |
| 2002 | #597 | 433 | — | |
| 2001 | #719 | 339 | — | |
| 2000 | #954 | 222 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,378 | 128 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,819 | 85 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janiya! It came in at #12,958, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Janiya is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#301 · 1 in 1,166
- Mississippi#303 · 1 in 1,109
- South Carolina#429 · 1 in 1,786
- Alabama#458 · 1 in 1,937
- Georgia#508 · 1 in 2,402
Best ever in a state: #53 in Mississippi, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #301 | 18 | 1 in 1,166 |
| Mississippi | #303 | 10 | 1 in 1,109 |
| South Carolina | #429 | 10 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Alabama | #458 | 10 | 1 in 1,937 |
| Georgia | #508 | 20 | 1 in 2,402 |
| Florida | #595 | 28 | 1 in 3,097 |
| Virginia | #655 | 11 | 1 in 3,376 |
| Michigan | #765 | 10 | 1 in 4,207 |
| Oklahoma | #784 | 5 | 1 in 3,358 |
| Indiana | #821 | 7 | 1 in 4,328 |
| North Carolina | #847 | 10 | 1 in 4,531 |
| Wisconsin | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,660 |
| New Jersey | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 6,096 |
| Illinois | #1,088 | 9 | 1 in 6,403 |
| Texas | #1,127 | 23 | 1 in 7,274 |
| Ohio | #1,151 | 7 | 1 in 7,438 |
| New York | #1,573 | 8 | 1 in 11,230 |
| California | #2,676 | 7 | 1 in 29,103 |
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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 Janiya
- 191 spots since 2024 (#1,771 → #1,962)
- 294 spots since 2020 (#1,668 → #1,962)
- 965 spots since 2015 (#997 → #1,962)
- Biggest jump: 424 spots in 2000 (#1,378 → #954)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2015 (#852 → #997)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2008 at #362 (914 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2000–2015
- Highest: 1 in 2,069 girls born in 2008 were named Janiya (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,401 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 60.0% of all girls named Janiya (6,662) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 342 | #1,378 (1999) | #6,287 |
| 2000s | 6,662 | #362 (2008) | #506 |
| 2010s | 3,362 | #447 (2010) | #929 |
| 2020s | 737 | #1,491 (2021) | #1,689 |
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.
Janiya in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 7,477 of them was named Janiya, which outranked 94.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,082Loretta240
- #1,086Robin239
- #1,086Samira239
- #1,088Janiya237
- #1,088Jenesis237
- #1,088Karleigh237
- #1,088Natalee237
- #1,094Dalilah235
- #1,094Jenny235
- #1,094Temperance235
Tied with 5 names at #1,088; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.