Meaning not yet researched.
Janai: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,590 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,590 in 1997; #3,670 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Janai in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,670 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,590.
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Janai: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,590 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 113 (2006).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Janai, making it the 3,670th most common girls’ name of the year, down 721 places from #2,949 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 56 girls named Janai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,590, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 113, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,487 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Janai, making it the 11,232nd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #6,310, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2003. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janai in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 3,193 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 954 babies named Janai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 530 US girls were named Janai; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jana (46,223 babies since 1880), Janae (18,058 babies since 1880), Janna (16,097 babies since 1880) and Janay (5,832 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Janai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,670 | 6 | #11,232 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,792 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,133 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,714 | 5 | #12,964 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 2015 | 73 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,629 | 5 | #12,883 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,643 | 7 | #10,106 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,343 | 8 | #9,355 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,202 | 5 | #13,197 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,812 | 5 | #12,846 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,897 | 9 | #7,925 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,142 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,792 | 11 | #6,443 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,055 | 6 | #9,919 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,221 | 6 | #9,600 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,834 | 7 | #8,223 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,590 | 9 | #6,310 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,376 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,171 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,936 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,824 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,602 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,951 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,470 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,738 | — | — |
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).