Meaning not yet researched.
Jania: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,186 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,186 in 2005; #6,003 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jania in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,003 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,186.
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Jania: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,186 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 194 (2005).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Jania, making it the 6,003rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,332 places from #3,671 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 42 girls named Jania in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,186, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 194. For comparison, it was #4,441 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jania in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 7 babies. In all, 3,021 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,570 babies named Jania.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 446 US girls were named Jania; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Jannie (14,857 babies since 1880), Janiyah (13,605 babies since 1880) and Janiya (11,109 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahnyia and Janyhia 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: Jahnyia (11), Janyhia (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 Jania 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 | 20 | #6,003 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,201 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,441 | — | — |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2006 | 190 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2005 | 194 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 2003 | 180 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,121 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,157 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,760 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,949 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,655 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,548 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,723 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,257 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,410 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,064 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,600 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,461 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,940 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,907 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,908 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,974 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,085 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,684 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,016 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,971 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,688 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,664 | — | — |
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).