Meaning not yet researched.
Janis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #108 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #108 in 1947; #9,736 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,736 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #108.
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Janis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #108 in 1947 · most girls in one year: 3,205 (1947).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Janis, making it the 9,736th most common girls’ name of the year, down 538 places from #9,198 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 11 girls named Janis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #108, reached in 1947. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,205. For comparison, it was #4,643 in 2015 and #136 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janis in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 6 babies. In all, 49,015 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 18,720 babies named Janis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US girls were named Janis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Johann (5,519 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janise, Janese and Jannis 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, German and Norwegian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janise (2,084), Janese (1,111), Jannis (410), Janes (358), Janus (168), Janos (147), Janisse (85), Janas (46), Janais (29), Janiese (12), Janess (12), Jahnise (6), 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 Janis 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 | 10 | #9,736 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,198 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,263 | 6 | #11,425 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,004 | 5 | #13,155 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,866 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,623 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,869 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,122 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,148 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,862 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,616 | 5 | #11,121 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1982 | 106 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1981 | 124 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1980 | 138 | #1,036 | 5 | #6,674 |
| 1979 | 161 | #920 | — | — |
| 1978 | 154 | #921 | — | — |
| 1977 | 161 | #888 | — | — |
| 1976 | 171 | #813 | — | — |
| 1975 | 155 | #864 | — | — |
| 1974 | 161 | #828 | — | — |
| 1973 | 163 | #804 | 5 | #5,431 |
| 1972 | 203 | #710 | 6 | #4,680 |
| 1971 | 280 | #609 | — | — |
| 1970 | 244 | #660 | — | — |
| 1969 | 270 | #608 | 5 | #4,675 |
| 1968 | 284 | #567 | — | — |
| 1967 | 306 | #536 | — | — |
| 1966 | 345 | #510 | — | — |
| 1965 | 427 | #461 | — | — |
| 1964 | 516 | #432 | 7 | #3,431 |
| 1963 | 664 | #377 | — | — |
| 1962 | 591 | #388 | 9 | #2,938 |
| 1961 | 708 | #360 | — | — |
| 1960 | 857 | #321 | 6 | #3,838 |
| 1959 | 1,011 | #281 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,224 | #245 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,553 | #213 | — | — |
| 1956 | 2,364 | #157 | 8 | #3,077 |
| 1955 | 1,840 | #180 | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1954 | 1,791 | #183 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,864 | #169 | 8 | #3,027 |
| 1952 | 2,181 | #153 | 8 | #2,973 |
| 1951 | 2,550 | #131 | 7 | #3,208 |
| 1950 | 2,295 | #136 | 6 | #3,490 |
| 1949 | 2,458 | #131 | — | — |
| 1948 | 2,745 | #121 | 5 | #3,918 |
| 1947 | 3,205 | #108 | 12 | #2,306 |
| 1946 | 2,053 | #134 | 7 | #3,028 |
| 1945 | 1,128 | #184 | 5 | #3,529 |
| 1944 | 729 | #246 | 5 | #3,658 |
| 1943 | 651 | #274 | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1942 | 719 | #257 | — | — |
| 1941 | 596 | #262 | 5 | #3,755 |
| 1940 | 578 | #260 | — | — |
| 1939 | 620 | #252 | — | — |
| 1938 | 640 | #251 | 5 | #3,769 |
| 1937 | 716 | #226 | 6 | #3,328 |
| 1936 | 599 | #252 | — | — |
| 1935 | 448 | #287 | — | — |
| 1934 | 412 | #309 | — | — |
| 1933 | 361 | #331 | — | — |
| 1932 | 306 | #365 | 6 | #3,561 |
| 1931 | 261 | #402 | — | — |
| 1930 | 270 | #403 | — | — |
| 1929 | 226 | #438 | — | — |
| 1928 | 194 | #497 | 5 | #4,434 |
| 1927 | 197 | #498 | — | — |
| 1926 | 145 | #589 | — | — |
| 1925 | 140 | #620 | — | — |
| 1924 | 133 | #650 | — | — |
| 1923 | 107 | #706 | — | — |
| 1922 | 106 | #707 | — | — |
| 1921 | 105 | #715 | — | — |
| 1920 | 121 | #660 | — | — |
| 1919 | 79 | #794 | — | — |
| 1918 | 74 | #832 | — | — |
| 1917 | 55 | #937 | — | — |
| 1916 | 54 | #932 | — | — |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1914 | 34 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,078 | — | — |
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).