Meaning not yet researched.
Janina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,120 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,120 in 1916; #9,120 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,120 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #1,120.
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Janina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,120 in 1916 · most girls in one year: 77 (1980).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Janina, making it the 9,120th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,732 places from #7,388 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 15 girls named Janina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,120, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 77, in 1980. For comparison, it was #7,102 in 2015 and #2,601 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janina in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 8 babies. In all, 2,929 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 571 babies named Janina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 168 US girls were named Janina; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Yanina, Jannina and Janaina 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 Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yanina (384), Jannina (16), Janaina (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 Janina 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 | 11 | #9,120 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,388 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,520 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,519 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,228 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,851 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,326 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,034 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,109 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,102 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,699 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,937 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,334 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,246 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,979 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,737 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,715 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,023 | — | — |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,367 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,371 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,676 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,112 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,168 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,073 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,990 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,276 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,861 | — | — |
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).