Meaning not yet researched.
Janessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #524 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #524 in 2004; #1,741 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,741 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #524.
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Janessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 girls in 2025. Peak: #524 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 556 (2009).
In 2025, 117 US girls were named Janessa, making it the 1,741st most common girls’ name of the year, down 170 places from #1,571 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 135 girls named Janessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #524, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 556, in 2009. For comparison, it was #716 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janessa in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 7 babies. In all, 14,722 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,712 babies named Janessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,156 US girls were named Janessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 313. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,737 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janessa ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #961 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Janissa, Janisa and Janesa 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janissa (519), Janisa (350), Janesa (322), Jannessa (237), Jahnessa (111), Janaisa (73), Janeesa (53), Janessah (41), Janyssa (33), Jannesa (5), Janeisa (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 Janessa 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #961 | #761 |
| Indiana | 6 | #971 | #1,161 |
| California | 18 | #1,335 | #454 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,662 | #729 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,765 | #473 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2023 | 166 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 2021 | 209 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 2020 | 208 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2019 | 227 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2018 | 272 | #972 | — | — |
| 2017 | 303 | #891 | — | — |
| 2016 | 313 | #894 | — | — |
| 2015 | 397 | #716 | — | — |
| 2014 | 368 | #761 | — | — |
| 2013 | 407 | #696 | — | — |
| 2012 | 426 | #665 | — | — |
| 2011 | 451 | #630 | — | — |
| 2010 | 527 | #554 | — | — |
| 2009 | 556 | #545 | — | — |
| 2008 | 536 | #574 | — | — |
| 2007 | 547 | #557 | — | — |
| 2006 | 488 | #596 | — | — |
| 2005 | 488 | #583 | — | — |
| 2004 | 544 | #524 | — | — |
| 2003 | 465 | #590 | — | — |
| 2002 | 390 | #647 | — | — |
| 2001 | 352 | #706 | — | — |
| 2000 | 346 | #686 | — | — |
| 1999 | 321 | #707 | — | — |
| 1998 | 319 | #699 | — | — |
| 1997 | 304 | #706 | — | — |
| 1996 | 307 | #702 | — | — |
| 1995 | 264 | #766 | — | — |
| 1994 | 311 | #680 | — | — |
| 1993 | 272 | #761 | — | — |
| 1992 | 291 | #730 | — | — |
| 1991 | 370 | #610 | — | — |
| 1990 | 318 | #676 | — | — |
| 1989 | 246 | #785 | — | — |
| 1988 | 242 | #775 | — | — |
| 1987 | 212 | #823 | — | — |
| 1986 | 205 | #820 | — | — |
| 1985 | 152 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1984 | 155 | #946 | — | — |
| 1983 | 132 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1982 | 131 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1981 | 132 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1979 | 79 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,199 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,678 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,883 | — | — |
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).