January
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 257 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,170since 1951
January over time
Rank among girls' names. January has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 |
| 1981 | #1,200 | 109 |
| 1980 | #1,117 | 122 |
| 1979 | #748 | 216 |
| 1978 | #638 | 257 |
| 1977 | #872 | 165 |
| 1976 | #719 | 204 |
| 1975 | #1,258 | 89 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named January! It came in at #4,385, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where January is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#344 · 1 in 2,652
- Kansas#348 · 1 in 2,239
- Colorado#385 · 1 in 2,471
- Maryland#401 · 1 in 2,608
- Tennessee#424 · 1 in 3,096
Best ever in a state: #344 in Ohio, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #344 | 26 | 1 in 2,652 |
| Kansas | #348 | 6 | 1 in 2,239 |
| Colorado | #385 | 7 | 1 in 2,471 |
| Maryland | #401 | 7 | 1 in 2,608 |
| Tennessee | #424 | 9 | 1 in 3,096 |
| Oklahoma | #440 | 6 | 1 in 2,834 |
| Florida | #446 | 15 | 1 in 2,935 |
| Missouri | #456 | 8 | 1 in 3,832 |
| Alabama | #461 | 7 | 1 in 3,107 |
| Arizona | #462 | 6 | 1 in 2,731 |
| North Carolina | #463 | 9 | 1 in 3,596 |
| Massachusetts | #513 | 6 | 1 in 4,943 |
| New Jersey | #542 | 9 | 1 in 4,030 |
| Pennsylvania | #567 | 12 | 1 in 5,500 |
| Georgia | #602 | 7 | 1 in 4,607 |
| Texas | #636 | 22 | 1 in 4,700 |
| Michigan | #697 | 8 | 1 in 7,194 |
| Louisiana | #771 | 5 | 1 in 5,503 |
| Illinois | #822 | 9 | 1 in 7,878 |
| New York | #891 | 12 | 1 in 8,194 |
| California | #965 | 17 | 1 in 9,019 |
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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 January
- 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
- 4,024 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #10,107)
- 4,274 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 539 spots in 1976 (#1,258 → #719)
- Biggest drop: 369 spots in 1980 (#748 → #1,117)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1978 at #638 (257 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1976–1979
- Highest: 1 in 5,961 girls born in 1978 were named January (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.1% of all girls named January (1,000) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 17 | #4,385 (1951) | #5,434 |
| 1960s | 75 | #3,952 (1965) | #4,993 |
| 1970s | 1,000 | #638 (1978) | #2,680 |
| 1980s | 517 | #1,117 (1980) | #2,644 |
| 1990s | 116 | #4,849 (1992) | #7,820 |
| 2000s | 115 | #6,885 (2003) | #9,454 |
| 2010s | 239 | #4,076 (2013) | #5,631 |
| 2020s | 91 | #5,984 (2022) | #7,508 |
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.
January in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 5,961 of them was named January, which outranked 94.4% 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).