Meaning not yet researched.
Jana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 181 in 2025. Its best rank was #226 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #226 in 1979; #1,247 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,247 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #226.
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Jana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 181 girls in 2025. Peak: #226 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 1,456 (1961).
In 2025, 181 US girls were named Jana, making it the 1,247th most common girls’ name of the year, up 92 places from #1,339 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 171 girls named Jana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #226, reached in 1979. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,456, in 1961. For comparison, it was #1,009 in 2015 and #465 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jana in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 46,223 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 11,621 babies named Jana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,327 US girls were named Jana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 301. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,880 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jana ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #724 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Juanita (208,675 babies since 1880) and Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janaye, Jahnae and Jahna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Latvian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janaye (955), Jahnae (502), Jahna (451), Jaiana (434), Janah (351), Jayona (291), Janaia (246), Jahnay (179), Jannae (140), Jaanai (134), Jaonna (129), Jahnai (125), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jana in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 13 | #724 | #1,013 |
| New York | 18 | #881 | #794 |
| Virginia | 8 | #889 | #879 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #909 | #806 |
| Florida | 17 | #932 | #1,147 |
| Missouri | 5 | #988 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,011 | #685 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,299 | #1,161 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,430 | #940 |
| California | 15 | #1,527 | #1,035 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,562 | #1,005 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,630 | #1,111 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 2023 | 200 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2021 | 228 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2020 | 234 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2019 | 237 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 2018 | 269 | #983 | — | — |
| 2017 | 292 | #916 | — | — |
| 2016 | 301 | #917 | — | — |
| 2015 | 266 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2014 | 229 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2013 | 244 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 2012 | 238 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 2010 | 242 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2006 | 245 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 2005 | 252 | #973 | — | — |
| 2004 | 250 | #959 | — | — |
| 2003 | 218 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2002 | 254 | #887 | — | — |
| 2001 | 235 | #940 | — | — |
| 2000 | 229 | #938 | — | — |
| 1999 | 247 | #873 | — | — |
| 1998 | 248 | #858 | — | — |
| 1997 | 231 | #878 | — | — |
| 1996 | 234 | #852 | — | — |
| 1995 | 271 | #753 | — | — |
| 1994 | 260 | #786 | — | — |
| 1993 | 305 | #702 | — | — |
| 1992 | 340 | #658 | — | — |
| 1991 | 383 | #593 | — | — |
| 1990 | 433 | #546 | — | — |
| 1989 | 481 | #488 | — | — |
| 1988 | 505 | #447 | — | — |
| 1987 | 582 | #395 | — | — |
| 1986 | 677 | #352 | 7 | #5,585 |
| 1985 | 696 | #338 | 6 | #6,102 |
| 1984 | 757 | #314 | — | — |
| 1983 | 741 | #310 | — | — |
| 1982 | 843 | #291 | — | — |
| 1981 | 939 | #267 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,046 | #246 | 5 | #6,671 |
| 1979 | 1,161 | #226 | — | — |
| 1978 | 959 | #248 | — | — |
| 1977 | 949 | #261 | 6 | #5,430 |
| 1976 | 798 | #288 | — | — |
| 1975 | 821 | #291 | — | — |
| 1974 | 801 | #298 | — | — |
| 1973 | 827 | #289 | — | — |
| 1972 | 863 | #291 | — | — |
| 1971 | 964 | #292 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,025 | #286 | 5 | #5,046 |
| 1969 | 1,008 | #281 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,011 | #269 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,074 | #255 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,138 | #250 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,094 | #260 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,227 | #252 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,311 | #240 | 9 | #2,945 |
| 1962 | 1,313 | #242 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,456 | #226 | — | — |
| 1960 | 980 | #295 | — | — |
| 1959 | 938 | #296 | — | — |
| 1958 | 910 | #296 | — | — |
| 1957 | 848 | #316 | — | — |
| 1956 | 841 | #305 | — | — |
| 1955 | 868 | #295 | — | — |
| 1954 | 846 | #293 | — | — |
| 1953 | 655 | #319 | — | — |
| 1952 | 500 | #371 | — | — |
| 1951 | 371 | #434 | — | — |
| 1950 | 307 | #465 | — | — |
| 1949 | 297 | #466 | — | — |
| 1948 | 288 | #472 | — | — |
| 1947 | 230 | #563 | — | — |
| 1946 | 171 | #608 | — | — |
| 1945 | 140 | #614 | — | — |
| 1944 | 131 | #646 | — | — |
| 1943 | 154 | #609 | — | — |
| 1942 | 141 | #634 | — | — |
| 1941 | 66 | #906 | — | — |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,162 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,486 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).