Meaning not yet researched.
Janiah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #795 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #795 in 2008; #3,671 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janiah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,671 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #795.
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Janiah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #795 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 367 (2008).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Janiah, making it the 3,671st most common girls’ name of the year, down 421 places from #3,250 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 49 girls named Janiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #795, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 367. For comparison, it was #1,749 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janiah in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 8 babies. In all, 4,598 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,497 babies named Janiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 783 US girls were named Janiah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Janiyah (13,605 babies since 1880), Janiya (11,109 babies since 1880) and Jania (3,021 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janeigh 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: Janeigh (7).
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 Janiah 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 | 41 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2011 | 230 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2010 | 285 | #914 | — | — |
| 2009 | 297 | #914 | — | — |
| 2008 | 367 | #795 | — | — |
| 2007 | 313 | #889 | — | — |
| 2006 | 326 | #828 | — | — |
| 2005 | 284 | #889 | — | — |
| 2004 | 253 | #952 | — | — |
| 2003 | 222 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2002 | 189 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,398 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,410 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,847 | — | — |
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).