Meaning not yet researched.
Janiya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 98 in 2025. Its best rank was #362 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #362 in 2008; #1,967 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janiya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,967 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #362.
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Janiya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 98 girls in 2025. Peak: #362 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 914 (2008).
In 2025, 98 US girls were named Janiya, making it the 1,967th most common girls’ name of the year, down 193 places from #1,774 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 114 girls named Janiya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #362, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 914. For comparison, it was #998 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janiya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 11,109 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,668 babies named Janiya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,507 US girls were named Janiya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 237. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janiya ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #941 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Janiyah (13,605 babies since 1880), Janey (5,044 babies since 1880) and Janiah (4,598 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahnya and Janyha 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: Jahnya (246), Janyha (10).
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 Janiya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #941 | #708 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,129 | #605 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,195 | #581 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,279 | #560 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,495 | #901 |
| New York | 6 | #1,923 | #944 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,522 | #1,336 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2015 | 270 | #998 | — | — |
| 2014 | 323 | #853 | — | — |
| 2013 | 348 | #781 | — | — |
| 2012 | 425 | #667 | — | — |
| 2011 | 539 | #538 | — | — |
| 2010 | 687 | #448 | — | — |
| 2009 | 833 | #385 | — | — |
| 2008 | 914 | #362 | — | — |
| 2007 | 889 | #366 | — | — |
| 2006 | 838 | #386 | — | — |
| 2005 | 845 | #370 | — | — |
| 2004 | 843 | #371 | 6 | #10,531 |
| 2003 | 506 | #548 | — | — |
| 2002 | 433 | #598 | — | — |
| 2001 | 339 | #721 | — | — |
| 2000 | 222 | #955 | — | — |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,984 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,399 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,123 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,728 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,848 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,212 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,858 | — | — |
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).