Meaning not yet researched.
Janelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #186 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #186 in 1979; #801 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#801 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #186.
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Janelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 girls in 2025. Peak: #186 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 1,416 (1979).
In 2025, 340 US girls were named Janelle, making it the 801st most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #777 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 363 girls named Janelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #186, reached in 1979. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,416. For comparison, it was #474 in 2015 and #486 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janelle in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 56,967 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 12,637 babies named Janelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,802 US girls were named Janelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 667. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janelle ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #426 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Janette (32,214 babies since 1880), Janel (12,055 babies since 1880), Jenelle (7,204 babies since 1880) and Janell (15,756 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jannelle, Jannell and Janielle 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: Jannelle (1,178), Jannell (895), Janielle (623), Janeal (315), Janele (256), Janeil (239), Jinelle (159), Jaynell (130), Janille (81), Jaynelle (48), Jahnelle (47), Janyll (35), and more.
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 Janelle 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 13 | #426 | #705 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #458 | #395 |
| California | 67 | #499 | #282 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #550 | #488 |
| Nevada | 5 | #557 | #418 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #605 | — |
| Texas | 49 | #636 | #364 |
| Virginia | 11 | #678 | #465 |
| Florida | 24 | #699 | #407 |
| Washington | 9 | #711 | #475 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #714 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #767 | #475 |
| Maryland | 6 | #776 | #344 |
| Arizona | 8 | #779 | #473 |
| Alabama | 5 | #872 | — |
| New York | 18 | #882 | #413 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,174 | #368 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,204 | #717 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,300 | #615 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,302 | #510 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #801 | — | — |
| 2024 | 363 | #777 | — | — |
| 2023 | 418 | #693 | — | — |
| 2022 | 435 | #671 | — | — |
| 2021 | 448 | #663 | — | — |
| 2020 | 427 | #671 | — | — |
| 2019 | 549 | #553 | — | — |
| 2018 | 527 | #584 | — | — |
| 2017 | 628 | #499 | — | — |
| 2016 | 667 | #477 | — | — |
| 2015 | 680 | #474 | — | — |
| 2014 | 713 | #451 | — | — |
| 2013 | 777 | #397 | — | — |
| 2012 | 739 | #426 | — | — |
| 2011 | 813 | #391 | — | — |
| 2010 | 813 | #394 | — | — |
| 2009 | 781 | #405 | — | — |
| 2008 | 884 | #373 | — | — |
| 2007 | 817 | #399 | — | — |
| 2006 | 824 | #390 | — | — |
| 2005 | 571 | #517 | 5 | #12,199 |
| 2004 | 526 | #545 | — | — |
| 2003 | 606 | #484 | — | — |
| 2002 | 585 | #480 | — | — |
| 2001 | 588 | #473 | — | — |
| 2000 | 591 | #470 | — | — |
| 1999 | 609 | #442 | — | — |
| 1998 | 647 | #413 | — | — |
| 1997 | 654 | #400 | — | — |
| 1996 | 687 | #386 | — | — |
| 1995 | 779 | #339 | — | — |
| 1994 | 867 | #314 | — | — |
| 1993 | 980 | #282 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,071 | #261 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,088 | #257 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,106 | #258 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,184 | #232 | 9 | #5,351 |
| 1988 | 1,247 | #209 | 5 | #7,776 |
| 1987 | 1,218 | #216 | 8 | #5,163 |
| 1986 | 1,220 | #216 | 7 | #5,586 |
| 1985 | 1,360 | #198 | 5 | #6,989 |
| 1984 | 1,220 | #212 | 6 | #5,898 |
| 1983 | 1,165 | #218 | 9 | #4,295 |
| 1982 | 1,245 | #213 | 10 | #4,073 |
| 1981 | 1,317 | #203 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,395 | #194 | 7 | #5,183 |
| 1979 | 1,416 | #186 | 5 | #6,473 |
| 1978 | 1,384 | #186 | 5 | #6,222 |
| 1977 | 1,069 | #232 | — | — |
| 1976 | 760 | #302 | 5 | #5,979 |
| 1975 | 733 | #311 | — | — |
| 1974 | 634 | #344 | — | — |
| 1973 | 609 | #349 | — | — |
| 1972 | 586 | #370 | — | — |
| 1971 | 642 | #368 | — | — |
| 1970 | 606 | #387 | — | — |
| 1969 | 665 | #351 | — | — |
| 1968 | 568 | #384 | — | — |
| 1967 | 522 | #398 | — | — |
| 1966 | 473 | #432 | — | — |
| 1965 | 472 | #435 | — | — |
| 1964 | 560 | #413 | — | — |
| 1963 | 441 | #463 | — | — |
| 1962 | 451 | #451 | — | — |
| 1961 | 431 | #469 | — | — |
| 1960 | 442 | #465 | — | — |
| 1959 | 393 | #490 | — | — |
| 1958 | 407 | #472 | — | — |
| 1957 | 409 | #468 | — | — |
| 1956 | 368 | #486 | — | — |
| 1955 | 419 | #435 | — | — |
| 1954 | 376 | #455 | — | — |
| 1953 | 331 | #469 | — | — |
| 1952 | 310 | #476 | — | — |
| 1951 | 240 | #543 | — | — |
| 1950 | 275 | #486 | — | — |
| 1949 | 262 | #502 | — | — |
| 1948 | 256 | #514 | — | — |
| 1947 | 189 | #611 | — | — |
| 1946 | 131 | #706 | — | — |
| 1945 | 138 | #618 | — | — |
| 1944 | 129 | #653 | — | — |
| 1943 | 98 | #786 | — | — |
| 1942 | 102 | #748 | — | — |
| 1941 | 92 | #742 | — | — |
| 1940 | 102 | #688 | — | — |
| 1939 | 116 | #630 | — | — |
| 1938 | 122 | #617 | — | — |
| 1937 | 110 | #649 | — | — |
| 1936 | 111 | #629 | — | — |
| 1935 | 91 | #707 | — | — |
| 1934 | 78 | #758 | — | — |
| 1933 | 69 | #802 | — | — |
| 1932 | 63 | #886 | — | — |
| 1931 | 52 | #963 | — | — |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,907 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,185 | — | — |
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).