Meaning not yet researched.
Janine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #231 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #231 in 1960; #5,805 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janine in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,805 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #231.
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Janine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #231 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 1,380 (1960).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Janine, making it the 5,805th most common girls’ name of the year, up 225 places from #6,030 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 20 girls named Janine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #231, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,380. For comparison, it was #3,273 in 2015 and #446 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janine in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 33,519 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 11,769 babies named Janine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 300 US girls were named Janine; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janene (3,545 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jennine, Jannine and Janan 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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jennine (1,240), Jannine (677), Janan (655), Janeane (451), Janeene (208), Janann (135), Janiene (121), Janin (87), Janinne (41), Janon (40), Janyne (21), Jannene (19), and more.
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 Janine 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 | 21 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,030 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,051 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,383 | — | — |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,946 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,290 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1997 | 138 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1994 | 193 | #961 | — | — |
| 1993 | 250 | #803 | — | — |
| 1992 | 288 | #736 | — | — |
| 1991 | 283 | #735 | — | — |
| 1990 | 337 | #660 | — | — |
| 1989 | 328 | #640 | — | — |
| 1988 | 366 | #565 | — | — |
| 1987 | 345 | #575 | — | — |
| 1986 | 376 | #541 | — | — |
| 1985 | 426 | #484 | — | — |
| 1984 | 507 | #422 | — | — |
| 1983 | 541 | #401 | — | — |
| 1982 | 560 | #411 | — | — |
| 1981 | 496 | #429 | — | — |
| 1980 | 507 | #427 | — | — |
| 1979 | 524 | #410 | — | — |
| 1978 | 484 | #417 | — | — |
| 1977 | 480 | #422 | — | — |
| 1976 | 495 | #408 | — | — |
| 1975 | 491 | #410 | — | — |
| 1974 | 541 | #385 | — | — |
| 1973 | 584 | #365 | — | — |
| 1972 | 594 | #367 | — | — |
| 1971 | 830 | #321 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,044 | #282 | — | — |
| 1969 | 893 | #303 | — | — |
| 1968 | 882 | #295 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,056 | #259 | 6 | #3,735 |
| 1966 | 1,238 | #238 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 1965 | 1,357 | #232 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,240 | #251 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,135 | #261 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,289 | #246 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,288 | #242 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,380 | #231 | — | — |
| 1959 | 774 | #340 | — | — |
| 1958 | 459 | #445 | — | — |
| 1957 | 581 | #377 | — | — |
| 1956 | 578 | #363 | — | — |
| 1955 | 745 | #314 | — | — |
| 1954 | 813 | #297 | — | — |
| 1953 | 694 | #311 | — | — |
| 1952 | 564 | #346 | — | — |
| 1951 | 421 | #401 | — | — |
| 1950 | 327 | #446 | — | — |
| 1949 | 258 | #505 | — | — |
| 1948 | 277 | #484 | — | — |
| 1947 | 293 | #480 | — | — |
| 1946 | 188 | #584 | — | — |
| 1945 | 93 | #775 | — | — |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1943 | 64 | #993 | — | — |
| 1942 | 56 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1940 | 45 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1939 | 55 | #954 | — | — |
| 1938 | 58 | #938 | — | — |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,481 | — | — |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,067 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,443 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,658 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,591 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,027 | — | — |
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).