Janiyah
#783 for girls in 2025, 346 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 994 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,605since 1995
Janiyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Janiyah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #783 | 346 |
| 2024 | #884 | 305 |
| 2023 | #866 | 309 |
| 2022 | #895 | 311 |
| 2021 | #746 | 381 |
| 2020 | #722 | 385 |
| 2019 | #685 | 423 |
| 2018 | #657 | 449 |
| 2017 | #599 | 503 |
| 2016 | #563 | 552 |
| 2015 | #538 | 582 |
| 2014 | #569 | 539 |
| 2013 | #476 | 645 |
| 2012 | #438 | 714 |
| 2011 | #400 | 791 |
| 2010 | #351 | 914 |
| 2009 | #333 | 994 |
| 2008 | #355 | 929 |
| 2007 | #432 | 758 |
| 2006 | #462 | 686 |
| 2005 | #478 | 639 |
| 2004 | #570 | 501 |
| 2003 | #721 | 355 |
| 2002 | #1,060 | 201 |
| 2001 | #1,295 | 149 |
| 2000 | #1,855 | 92 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Janiyah! It came in at #7,514, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Janiyah is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#151 · 1 in 591
- Georgia#228 · 1 in 1,014
- South Carolina#273 · 1 in 1,148
- Illinois#292 · 1 in 1,361
- Louisiana#299 · 1 in 1,183
Best ever in a state: #72 in Mississippi, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #151 | 19 | 1 in 591 |
| Georgia | #228 | 48 | 1 in 1,014 |
| South Carolina | #273 | 16 | 1 in 1,148 |
| Illinois | #292 | 43 | 1 in 1,361 |
| Louisiana | #299 | 18 | 1 in 1,183 |
| Florida | #302 | 59 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Massachusetts | #371 | 15 | 1 in 1,685 |
| Ohio | #372 | 30 | 1 in 1,759 |
| Tennessee | #383 | 19 | 1 in 1,640 |
| Alabama | #385 | 12 | 1 in 1,639 |
| Connecticut | #394 | 7 | 1 in 1,719 |
| Michigan | #399 | 22 | 1 in 1,918 |
| North Carolina | #408 | 24 | 1 in 1,892 |
| New Jersey | #472 | 16 | 1 in 2,323 |
| Missouri | #495 | 12 | 1 in 2,266 |
| New York | #512 | 36 | 1 in 2,537 |
| Virginia | #515 | 15 | 1 in 2,499 |
| Pennsylvania | #516 | 21 | 1 in 2,514 |
| Wisconsin | #516 | 10 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Texas | #612 | 54 | 1 in 3,142 |
| Kentucky | #629 | 6 | 1 in 3,094 |
| Maryland | #632 | 8 | 1 in 3,013 |
| Minnesota | #761 | 6 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Colorado | #767 | 6 | 1 in 3,899 |
| Indiana | #1,072 | 5 | 1 in 6,126 |
| California | #1,086 | 28 | 1 in 7,334 |
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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 Janiyah
- 101 spots since 2024 (#884 → #783)
- 61 spots since 2020 (#722 → #783)
- 245 spots since 2015 (#538 → #783)
- Biggest jump: 339 spots in 2003 (#1,060 → #721)
- Biggest drop: 149 spots in 2022 (#746 → #895)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2009 at #333 (994 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2003–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,848 girls born in 2009 were named Janiyah (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,645 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 44.9% of all girls named Janiyah (6,112) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 152 | #2,222 (1999) | #4,613 |
| 2000s | 5,304 | #333 (2009) | #756 |
| 2010s | 6,112 | #351 (2010) | #528 |
| 2020s | 2,037 | #722 (2020) | #816 |
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.
Janiyah in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
More about 2015
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1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 3,067 of them was named Janiyah, which outranked 97.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.