Meaning not yet researched.
Janney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,093 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,093 in 2013; #5,472 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,472 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,093.
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Janney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,093 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 224 (2013).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Janney, making it the 5,472nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,553 places from #3,919 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 38 girls named Janney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,093, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #3,192 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janney in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 1,029 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 668 babies named Janney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 568 US girls were named Janney; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Jannie (14,857 babies since 1880), Janey (5,044 babies since 1880) and Janee (3,262 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Janney 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.
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).