In 2025, 10 US girls were named Jannie, making it the 9,737th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #322, reached in 1910. The most girls given the name in a single year was 281, in 1924. For comparison, it was #13,604 in 2015 and #511 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jannie in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 21 babies. In all, 14,857 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,540 babies named Jannie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 65 US girls were named Jannie; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13. 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 Janie (75,874 babies since 1880), Janee (3,262 babies since 1880), Jania (3,021 babies since 1880) and Janney (1,029 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jayonnie and Janniah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.