Meaning not yet researched.
January: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #638 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #638 in 1978; #10,448 in 2025. Every baby recorded as January in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,448 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #638.
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January: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #638 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 257 (1978).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named January, making it the 10,448th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,248 places from #9,200 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 11 girls named January in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #638, reached in 1978. That year also had the most girls given the name: 257. For comparison, it was #5,913 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list January in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 7 babies. In all, 2,170 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,000 babies named January.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 169 US girls were named January; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Janari, Januari and Janeiry 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 Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Janari (379), Januari (44), Janeiry (28), Januarie (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 January 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 | 9 | #10,448 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,200 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,778 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,416 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,177 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,908 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,364 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,060 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,913 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,086 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,023 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,865 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,215 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,377 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,177 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,940 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,282 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,515 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,020 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,592 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,441 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,761 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,636 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,280 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,320 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,109 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,337 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,389 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,031 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,063 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,607 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,139 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1979 | 216 | #749 | — | — |
| 1978 | 257 | #638 | — | — |
| 1977 | 165 | #873 | — | — |
| 1976 | 204 | #719 | — | — |
| 1975 | 89 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,881 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,423 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,474 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,687 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,150 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,512 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,969 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,639 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,037 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,563 | — | — |
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).