Meaning not yet researched.
Janae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #464 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #464 in 1994; #1,687 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,687 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #464.
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Janae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 girls in 2025. Peak: #464 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 589 (2000).
In 2025, 122 US girls were named Janae, making it the 1,687th most common girls’ name of the year, down 278 places from #1,409 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 159 girls named Janae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #464, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 589, in 2000. For comparison, it was #1,003 in 2015 and #4,493 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janae in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 6 babies. In all, 18,058 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,019 babies named Janae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,828 US girls were named Janae; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 244. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,174 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janae ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #976 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jana (46,223 babies since 1880), Janna (16,097 babies since 1880), Janay (5,832 babies since 1880) and Jayna (5,370 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janaeya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janaeya (59).
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 Janae 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #976 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,094 | #852 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,129 | #707 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,198 | #679 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,330 | #941 |
| California | 12 | #1,788 | #1,460 |
| New York | 5 | #2,227 | #942 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2022 | 168 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2021 | 172 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2018 | 201 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 2017 | 216 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2016 | 244 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2015 | 269 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2014 | 296 | #915 | — | — |
| 2013 | 326 | #823 | — | — |
| 2012 | 332 | #808 | — | — |
| 2011 | 394 | #706 | — | — |
| 2010 | 407 | #700 | — | — |
| 2009 | 400 | #727 | — | — |
| 2008 | 369 | #792 | — | — |
| 2007 | 434 | #676 | — | — |
| 2006 | 422 | #677 | — | — |
| 2005 | 458 | #617 | — | — |
| 2004 | 490 | #578 | — | — |
| 2003 | 494 | #563 | — | — |
| 2002 | 524 | #522 | — | — |
| 2001 | 495 | #540 | — | — |
| 2000 | 589 | #471 | — | — |
| 1999 | 516 | #505 | — | — |
| 1998 | 536 | #479 | — | — |
| 1997 | 535 | #468 | — | — |
| 1996 | 474 | #505 | — | — |
| 1995 | 471 | #515 | — | — |
| 1994 | 545 | #464 | — | — |
| 1993 | 449 | #534 | — | — |
| 1992 | 488 | #496 | — | — |
| 1991 | 525 | #466 | — | — |
| 1990 | 480 | #502 | — | — |
| 1989 | 461 | #508 | 6 | #7,371 |
| 1988 | 432 | #509 | — | — |
| 1987 | 442 | #490 | — | — |
| 1986 | 245 | #727 | — | — |
| 1985 | 216 | #780 | — | — |
| 1984 | 215 | #755 | — | — |
| 1983 | 221 | #740 | — | — |
| 1982 | 216 | #765 | — | — |
| 1981 | 206 | #790 | — | — |
| 1980 | 187 | #835 | — | — |
| 1979 | 188 | #829 | — | — |
| 1978 | 152 | #932 | — | — |
| 1977 | 173 | #851 | — | — |
| 1976 | 201 | #733 | — | — |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,770 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,021 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,987 | — | — |
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).