Meaning not yet researched.
Janay: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #388 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #388 in 1987; #7,277 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janay in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #388.
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Janay: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #388 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 596 (1987).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Janay, making it the 7,277th most common girls’ name of the year, up 109 places from #7,386 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 15 girls named Janay in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #388, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 596. For comparison, it was #3,071 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janay in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 5 babies. In all, 5,832 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,101 babies named Janay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 217 US girls were named Janay; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 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 Jayna (5,370 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janayah, Janaiya and Janayia 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: Janayah (756), Janaiya (565), Janayia (145), Jahnaya (120).
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 Janay 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 | 15 | #7,277 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,386 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,421 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,109 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,627 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,515 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,230 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,619 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1997 | 204 | #969 | — | — |
| 1996 | 192 | #985 | — | — |
| 1995 | 245 | #809 | — | — |
| 1994 | 221 | #882 | — | — |
| 1993 | 173 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1992 | 248 | #811 | — | — |
| 1991 | 261 | #784 | — | — |
| 1990 | 292 | #718 | — | — |
| 1989 | 314 | #652 | — | — |
| 1988 | 430 | #513 | — | — |
| 1987 | 596 | #388 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,477 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,150 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,739 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,635 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,911 | — | — |
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).