Meaning not yet researched.
Janell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #490 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #490 in 1979; #6,418 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,418 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #490.
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Janell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #490 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 416 (1979).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Janell, making it the 6,418th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,347 places from #4,071 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 36 girls named Janell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #490, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 416. For comparison, it was #3,555 in 2015 and #677 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janell in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 15,756 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,857 babies named Janell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 313 US girls were named Janell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janelle (56,967 babies since 1880) and Janel (12,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janiel, Jannel and Januel 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: Janiel (1,107), Jannel (505), Januel (429), Janal (74), Janil (41), Jahnel (11), Janyl (6), Janael (5), Jahneil (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.
No nicknames listed for Janell 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 | 18 | #6,418 | — | — |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,050 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 2005 | 85 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,932 | 5 | #11,653 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1998 | 149 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1997 | 147 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1996 | 145 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1994 | 191 | #973 | — | — |
| 1993 | 185 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1992 | 216 | #904 | — | — |
| 1991 | 202 | #944 | — | — |
| 1990 | 227 | #866 | — | — |
| 1989 | 216 | #861 | — | — |
| 1988 | 241 | #780 | — | — |
| 1987 | 245 | #738 | 8 | #5,162 |
| 1986 | 242 | #736 | — | — |
| 1985 | 260 | #686 | 5 | #6,988 |
| 1984 | 288 | #619 | — | — |
| 1983 | 286 | #611 | — | — |
| 1982 | 308 | #590 | — | — |
| 1981 | 330 | #563 | — | — |
| 1980 | 340 | #549 | — | — |
| 1979 | 416 | #490 | 5 | #6,472 |
| 1978 | 334 | #537 | — | — |
| 1977 | 267 | #629 | — | — |
| 1976 | 293 | #567 | — | — |
| 1975 | 298 | #563 | — | — |
| 1974 | 209 | #701 | — | — |
| 1973 | 258 | #605 | — | — |
| 1972 | 223 | #672 | — | — |
| 1971 | 280 | #608 | — | — |
| 1970 | 274 | #621 | — | — |
| 1969 | 258 | #618 | — | — |
| 1968 | 261 | #595 | — | — |
| 1967 | 236 | #618 | — | — |
| 1966 | 233 | #624 | — | — |
| 1965 | 286 | #563 | — | — |
| 1964 | 259 | #635 | — | — |
| 1963 | 213 | #692 | — | — |
| 1962 | 282 | #592 | — | — |
| 1961 | 275 | #612 | — | — |
| 1960 | 234 | #665 | — | — |
| 1959 | 218 | #679 | — | — |
| 1958 | 216 | #673 | — | — |
| 1957 | 239 | #630 | — | — |
| 1956 | 215 | #654 | — | — |
| 1955 | 199 | #663 | — | — |
| 1954 | 263 | #548 | — | — |
| 1953 | 200 | #629 | — | — |
| 1952 | 179 | #662 | — | — |
| 1951 | 147 | #721 | — | — |
| 1950 | 158 | #677 | — | — |
| 1949 | 168 | #642 | — | — |
| 1948 | 97 | #883 | — | — |
| 1947 | 140 | #719 | — | — |
| 1946 | 112 | #777 | — | — |
| 1945 | 80 | #846 | — | — |
| 1944 | 93 | #795 | — | — |
| 1943 | 103 | #765 | — | — |
| 1942 | 78 | #877 | — | — |
| 1941 | 77 | #825 | — | — |
| 1940 | 83 | #775 | — | — |
| 1939 | 79 | #770 | — | — |
| 1938 | 79 | #796 | — | — |
| 1937 | 74 | #799 | — | — |
| 1936 | 88 | #714 | — | — |
| 1935 | 70 | #817 | — | — |
| 1934 | 59 | #890 | — | — |
| 1933 | 48 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1926 | 92 | #752 | — | — |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,716 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,890 | — | — |
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).