Meaning not yet researched.
Janaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,169 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,169 in 2002; #2,628 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,628 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,169.
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Janaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,169 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 198 (2006).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Janaya, making it the 2,628th most common girls’ name of the year, up 322 places from #2,950 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 56 girls named Janaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,169, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 198, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,572 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janaya in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 41 babies. In all, 3,965 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,724 babies named Janaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 611 US girls were named Janaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janaya ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,083 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), Janae (18,058 babies since 1880), Janna (16,097 babies since 1880) and Janay (5,832 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janaiyah, Janaiah and Janayiah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Brazilian Portuguese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janaiyah (179), Janaiah (171), Janayiah (11), Janaeyah (9).
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 Janaya 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 14 | #1,083 | #1,554 |
| New York | 7 | #1,729 | #2,089 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,570 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2005 | 189 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2000 | 131 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,849 | — | — |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,901 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,325 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,458 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,500 | — | — |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,990 | — | — |
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).