Meaning not yet researched.
Janey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #796 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #796 in 1945; #3,490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,490 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #796.
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Janey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #796 in 1945 · most girls in one year: 108 (1947).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Janey, making it the 3,490th most common girls’ name of the year, up 510 places from #4,000 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 37 girls named Janey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #796, reached in 1945. The most girls given the name in a single year was 108, in 1947. For comparison, it was #4,180 in 2015 and #985 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janey in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 5,044 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 853 babies named Janey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 352 US girls were named Janey; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 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), Janee (3,262 babies since 1880) and Jania (3,021 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahnea and Jainy 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jahnea (46), Jainy (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 Janey 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 | 44 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,507 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,851 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,435 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,611 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,658 | — | — |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1988 | 59 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1959 | 79 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1957 | 87 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1956 | 100 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1955 | 92 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1954 | 83 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1953 | 98 | #958 | — | — |
| 1952 | 98 | #939 | — | — |
| 1951 | 70 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1950 | 86 | #985 | — | — |
| 1949 | 100 | #882 | — | — |
| 1948 | 95 | #892 | — | — |
| 1947 | 108 | #844 | — | — |
| 1946 | 97 | #840 | — | — |
| 1945 | 90 | #796 | — | — |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1941 | 49 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #798 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,087 | — | — |
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).