Meaning not yet researched.
Janea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,843 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,843 in 1989; #15,901 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,901 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #1,843.
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Janea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,843 in 1989 · most girls in one year: 76 (1993).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Janea, making it the 15,901st most common girls’ name of the year, down 7,238 places from #8,663 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 12 girls named Janea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,843, reached in 1989. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1993. For comparison, it was #8,176 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janea in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 2,027 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 620 babies named Janea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 97 US girls were named Janea; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Janiya (11,109 babies since 1880), Janey (5,044 babies since 1880) and Janiah (4,598 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 Janea 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 | 5 | #15,901 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,663 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,614 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,738 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,747 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,842 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,567 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,539 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,009 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,171 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,176 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,210 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,346 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,767 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,245 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,500 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,137 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,696 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,825 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,851 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,188 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,973 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,031 | — | — |
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).