Meaning not yet researched.
Jane: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,380 in 2025. Its best rank was #35 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #35 in 1946; #221 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jane in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#221 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #35.
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Jane: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,380 girls in 2025. Peak: #35 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 9,943 (1947).
In 2025, 1,380 US girls were named Jane, making it the 221st most common girls’ name of the year, up 48 places from #269 in 2024. That is 194 more than the 1,186 girls named Jane in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #35, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,943, in 1947. For comparison, it was #290 in 2015 and #39 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jane in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 215 babies with the name. In all, 381,009 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 83,095 babies named Jane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,726 US girls were named Jane; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,380. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,165 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jane ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #26 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880), Jana (46,223 babies since 1880) and Jayne (29,140 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaun, Janne and Jahn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Janie, Jean, Jennie and Jessie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaun (546), Janne (511), Jahn (385), Jaine (265), Jayen (190), Jahne (98), Jaen (39), Jayn (39), Jaynne (15), Jain (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 7 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 96 | #26 | #49 |
| Wyoming | 6 | #69 | — |
| Idaho | 22 | #91 | #101 |
| Maine | 11 | #93 | — |
| District of Columbia | 8 | #99 | #190 |
| Oregon | 25 | #132 | #221 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #134 | — |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #143 | — |
| Montana | 7 | #155 | — |
| Arizona | 38 | #168 | #319 |
| Virginia | 46 | #177 | #237 |
| Washington | 41 | #181 | #287 |
| Indiana | 38 | #185 | #320 |
| Tennessee | 41 | #188 | #307 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #189 | #366 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #190 | #336 |
| Alabama | 23 | #193 | #372 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #201 | #229 |
| Ohio | 56 | #202 | #377 |
| Colorado | 30 | #203 | #248 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #209 | #296 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #211 | #240 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #211 | #403 |
| Illinois | 45 | #226 | #247 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #226 | #402 |
| Kansas | 14 | #227 | #243 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #229 | #418 |
| North Carolina | 47 | #230 | #307 |
| Michigan | 39 | #230 | #284 |
| New York | 73 | #237 | #382 |
| Iowa | 15 | #239 | #555 |
| Maryland | 21 | #245 | #283 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #250 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #256 | — |
| California | 124 | #265 | #291 |
| Georgia | 37 | #272 | #378 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #276 | #287 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #280 | #626 |
| Texas | 101 | #341 | #344 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #348 | #441 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #356 | #262 |
| Missouri | 16 | #379 | #187 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #403 | #313 |
| Florida | 44 | #430 | #559 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,380 | #221 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,186 | #269 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,116 | #281 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,089 | #290 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,172 | #266 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,169 | #264 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,189 | #277 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,133 | #290 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,157 | #282 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,135 | #279 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,112 | #290 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,026 | #322 | — | — |
| 2013 | 898 | #357 | — | — |
| 2012 | 927 | #343 | — | — |
| 2011 | 868 | #368 | — | — |
| 2010 | 833 | #385 | — | — |
| 2009 | 831 | #386 | — | — |
| 2008 | 826 | #389 | — | — |
| 2007 | 775 | #424 | — | — |
| 2006 | 665 | #477 | — | — |
| 2005 | 651 | #472 | — | — |
| 2004 | 657 | #459 | — | — |
| 2003 | 704 | #427 | 5 | #11,652 |
| 2002 | 696 | #417 | — | — |
| 2001 | 671 | #423 | — | — |
| 2000 | 647 | #437 | — | — |
| 1999 | 618 | #438 | — | — |
| 1998 | 638 | #415 | — | — |
| 1997 | 648 | #404 | — | — |
| 1996 | 639 | #407 | — | — |
| 1995 | 618 | #419 | — | — |
| 1994 | 706 | #369 | — | — |
| 1993 | 691 | #368 | — | — |
| 1992 | 652 | #395 | 5 | #8,997 |
| 1991 | 708 | #363 | 9 | #5,700 |
| 1990 | 773 | #346 | 8 | #6,078 |
| 1989 | 779 | #325 | 8 | #5,874 |
| 1988 | 723 | #340 | 7 | #6,051 |
| 1987 | 668 | #357 | 6 | #6,447 |
| 1986 | 669 | #356 | 10 | #4,269 |
| 1985 | 709 | #335 | 9 | #4,476 |
| 1984 | 725 | #323 | 6 | #5,897 |
| 1983 | 784 | #298 | 6 | #5,794 |
| 1982 | 845 | #290 | 5 | #6,779 |
| 1981 | 762 | #314 | 7 | #5,166 |
| 1980 | 775 | #312 | — | — |
| 1979 | 720 | #325 | 5 | #6,470 |
| 1978 | 699 | #328 | — | — |
| 1977 | 744 | #318 | 8 | #4,352 |
| 1976 | 697 | #320 | 5 | #5,978 |
| 1975 | 782 | #300 | 5 | #5,838 |
| 1974 | 827 | #288 | 8 | #3,993 |
| 1973 | 957 | #261 | 5 | #5,428 |
| 1972 | 1,160 | #238 | 6 | #4,678 |
| 1971 | 1,296 | #232 | 6 | #4,634 |
| 1970 | 1,601 | #202 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,880 | #170 | 5 | #4,674 |
| 1968 | 2,192 | #146 | 8 | #3,222 |
| 1967 | 2,729 | #127 | 10 | #2,678 |
| 1966 | 3,213 | #111 | 8 | #3,099 |
| 1965 | 3,927 | #95 | 16 | #2,032 |
| 1964 | 4,567 | #93 | 7 | #3,430 |
| 1963 | 5,767 | #75 | 11 | #2,602 |
| 1962 | 6,114 | #73 | 12 | #2,435 |
| 1961 | 6,365 | #72 | 19 | #1,910 |
| 1960 | 6,586 | #67 | 19 | #1,880 |
| 1959 | 6,864 | #67 | 16 | #2,067 |
| 1958 | 7,199 | #61 | 21 | #1,750 |
| 1957 | 7,788 | #56 | 17 | #1,988 |
| 1956 | 8,241 | #50 | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1955 | 8,343 | #50 | 17 | #1,931 |
| 1954 | 8,343 | #49 | 18 | #1,856 |
| 1953 | 8,913 | #43 | 21 | #1,690 |
| 1952 | 9,322 | #42 | 16 | #1,973 |
| 1951 | 8,942 | #43 | 20 | #1,705 |
| 1950 | 8,964 | #39 | 20 | #1,678 |
| 1949 | 8,719 | #41 | 19 | #1,730 |
| 1948 | 8,781 | #39 | 20 | #1,680 |
| 1947 | 9,943 | #36 | 18 | #1,817 |
| 1946 | 8,971 | #35 | 36 | #1,166 |
| 1945 | 7,639 | #36 | 17 | #1,658 |
| 1944 | 6,564 | #41 | 19 | #1,604 |
| 1943 | 6,032 | #44 | 20 | #1,608 |
| 1942 | 5,707 | #46 | 24 | #1,445 |
| 1941 | 5,090 | #46 | 25 | #1,351 |
| 1940 | 5,091 | #47 | 29 | #1,265 |
| 1939 | 4,771 | #46 | 25 | #1,342 |
| 1938 | 4,786 | #44 | 26 | #1,323 |
| 1937 | 4,702 | #42 | 21 | #1,505 |
| 1936 | 4,719 | #42 | 26 | #1,307 |
| 1935 | 4,646 | #43 | 18 | #1,684 |
| 1934 | 4,358 | #48 | 18 | #1,698 |
| 1933 | 4,377 | #47 | 18 | #1,678 |
| 1932 | 4,348 | #49 | 18 | #1,749 |
| 1931 | 4,532 | #50 | 20 | #1,611 |
| 1930 | 4,575 | #55 | 21 | #1,625 |
| 1929 | 4,353 | #62 | 20 | #1,704 |
| 1928 | 4,411 | #62 | 21 | #1,672 |
| 1927 | 4,695 | #60 | 27 | #1,452 |
| 1926 | 4,641 | #56 | 22 | #1,631 |
| 1925 | 4,881 | #53 | 24 | #1,557 |
| 1924 | 5,104 | #53 | 17 | #2,003 |
| 1923 | 4,917 | #55 | 11 | #2,695 |
| 1922 | 4,805 | #55 | 18 | #1,926 |
| 1921 | 5,188 | #47 | 12 | #2,553 |
| 1920 | 5,054 | #48 | 9 | #3,075 |
| 1919 | 4,527 | #53 | 17 | #1,927 |
| 1918 | 4,730 | #53 | 10 | #2,785 |
| 1917 | 4,258 | #55 | 13 | #2,233 |
| 1916 | 3,826 | #62 | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1915 | 3,264 | #69 | 15 | #1,924 |
| 1914 | 2,340 | #71 | — | — |
| 1913 | 1,759 | #81 | 7 | #2,377 |
| 1912 | 1,390 | #89 | — | — |
| 1911 | 937 | #98 | — | — |
| 1910 | 709 | #116 | 6 | #1,504 |
| 1909 | 626 | #116 | — | — |
| 1908 | 531 | #130 | 5 | #1,502 |
| 1907 | 526 | #124 | 5 | #1,447 |
| 1906 | 438 | #140 | — | — |
| 1905 | 393 | #151 | — | — |
| 1904 | 395 | #142 | — | — |
| 1903 | 381 | #143 | — | — |
| 1902 | 388 | #142 | — | — |
| 1901 | 325 | #150 | — | — |
| 1900 | 495 | #128 | — | — |
| 1899 | 382 | #128 | — | — |
| 1898 | 406 | #130 | — | — |
| 1897 | 396 | #125 | — | — |
| 1896 | 413 | #115 | — | — |
| 1895 | 394 | #119 | — | — |
| 1894 | 390 | #120 | — | — |
| 1893 | 354 | #123 | — | — |
| 1892 | 396 | #113 | — | — |
| 1891 | 379 | #102 | — | — |
| 1890 | 372 | #108 | — | — |
| 1889 | 374 | #103 | — | — |
| 1888 | 446 | #92 | — | — |
| 1887 | 288 | #107 | — | — |
| 1886 | 306 | #105 | — | — |
| 1885 | 330 | #91 | — | — |
| 1884 | 295 | #98 | — | — |
| 1883 | 247 | #102 | — | — |
| 1882 | 254 | #101 | — | — |
| 1881 | 216 | #99 | — | — |
| 1880 | 215 | #98 | — | — |
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).