Meaning not yet researched.
Janiyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 346 in 2025. Its best rank was #334 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #334 in 2009; #783 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janiyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#783 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #334.
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Janiyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 346 girls in 2025. Peak: #334 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 994 (2009).
In 2025, 346 US girls were named Janiyah, making it the 783rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 102 places from #885 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 305 girls named Janiyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #334, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 994. For comparison, it was #538 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janiyah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 11 babies. In all, 13,605 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,112 babies named Janiyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,964 US girls were named Janiyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 552. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,645 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Janiyah ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #280 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Janiya (11,109 babies since 1880), Janiah (4,598 babies since 1880), Jania (3,021 babies since 1880) and Janya (2,374 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jahniya, Janyiah and Jahniyah 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: Jahniya (571), Janyiah (516), Jahniyah (324), Janeya (306), Janeah (191), Janiaya (184), Janiyha (144), Jahniah (112), Janeyah (54), Jahnyah (49), Janiyia (46), Jayniah (46), 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 Janiyah 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 10 | #280 | #156 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #409 | #382 |
| Florida | 43 | #437 | #307 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #461 | — |
| Georgia | 21 | #538 | #233 |
| Alabama | 9 | #547 | #400 |
| Virginia | 13 | #587 | #535 |
| Ohio | 15 | #654 | #378 |
| Michigan | 12 | #656 | #406 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #672 | #387 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #715 | #303 |
| New York | 23 | #716 | #516 |
| Maryland | 6 | #777 | #667 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #778 | #808 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #806 | #410 |
| Illinois | 11 | #826 | #296 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #832 | #283 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #835 | #527 |
| Texas | 35 | #847 | #615 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #884 | #486 |
| Indiana | 6 | #972 | #1,165 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,132 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,336 | #1,097 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 346 | #783 | — | — |
| 2024 | 305 | #885 | — | — |
| 2023 | 309 | #868 | — | — |
| 2022 | 311 | #897 | — | — |
| 2021 | 381 | #747 | — | — |
| 2020 | 385 | #722 | — | — |
| 2019 | 423 | #687 | — | — |
| 2018 | 449 | #657 | — | — |
| 2017 | 503 | #600 | — | — |
| 2016 | 552 | #564 | — | — |
| 2015 | 582 | #538 | — | — |
| 2014 | 539 | #569 | — | — |
| 2013 | 645 | #476 | — | — |
| 2012 | 714 | #438 | — | — |
| 2011 | 791 | #400 | — | — |
| 2010 | 914 | #352 | — | — |
| 2009 | 994 | #334 | — | — |
| 2008 | 929 | #355 | — | — |
| 2007 | 758 | #432 | — | — |
| 2006 | 686 | #462 | — | — |
| 2005 | 639 | #479 | — | — |
| 2004 | 501 | #570 | — | — |
| 2003 | 355 | #722 | — | — |
| 2002 | 201 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2001 | 149 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,292 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,733 | — | — |
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).