Meaning not yet researched.
Janel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #470 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #470 in 1971; #11,330 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,330 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #470.
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Janel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #470 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 424 (1971).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Janel, making it the 11,330th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,265 places from #7,065 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 16 girls named Janel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #470, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 424. For comparison, it was #4,532 in 2015 and #1,079 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janel in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 12,055 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,676 babies named Janel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 223 US girls were named Janel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janelle (56,967 babies since 1880) and Janell (15,756 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jainil, Jayniel and Jahniel 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: Jainil (40), Jayniel (28), Jahniel (14), Janniel (12), Jannuel (7).
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 Janel 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 | 8 | #11,330 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,065 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,519 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,793 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,810 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,526 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,434 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,532 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,956 | — | — |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,657 | — | — |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,797 | — | — |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1998 | 130 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1996 | 160 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1994 | 189 | #979 | — | — |
| 1993 | 203 | #931 | — | — |
| 1992 | 223 | #887 | — | — |
| 1991 | 236 | #849 | — | — |
| 1990 | 194 | #966 | — | — |
| 1989 | 238 | #802 | 6 | #7,374 |
| 1988 | 255 | #735 | — | — |
| 1987 | 280 | #666 | — | — |
| 1986 | 231 | #754 | — | — |
| 1985 | 185 | #868 | — | — |
| 1984 | 207 | #779 | — | — |
| 1983 | 228 | #726 | 6 | #5,795 |
| 1982 | 283 | #636 | — | — |
| 1981 | 324 | #568 | — | — |
| 1980 | 397 | #507 | 5 | #6,673 |
| 1979 | 359 | #530 | 5 | #6,471 |
| 1978 | 413 | #475 | — | — |
| 1977 | 387 | #491 | — | — |
| 1976 | 346 | #514 | — | — |
| 1975 | 346 | #514 | — | — |
| 1974 | 310 | #546 | — | — |
| 1973 | 333 | #514 | — | — |
| 1972 | 357 | #495 | 5 | #5,304 |
| 1971 | 424 | #470 | 5 | #5,249 |
| 1970 | 386 | #508 | — | — |
| 1969 | 312 | #559 | — | — |
| 1968 | 252 | #608 | — | — |
| 1967 | 184 | #725 | — | — |
| 1966 | 114 | #954 | — | — |
| 1965 | 105 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1964 | 130 | #917 | — | — |
| 1963 | 106 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1962 | 121 | #969 | — | — |
| 1961 | 142 | #908 | — | — |
| 1960 | 110 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1959 | 107 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1958 | 110 | #989 | — | — |
| 1957 | 103 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1956 | 87 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1954 | 102 | #961 | — | — |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1951 | 83 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1950 | 73 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1948 | 55 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,024 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,514 | — | — |
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).