Jaanai — girls' name
129 babies named Jaanai in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
52% of everyone ever named Jaanai was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Jaanai in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jaanai
The Social Security Administration has registered 129 babies named Jaanai between 2000 and 2020, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jaanai currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaanai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jaanai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jaanai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jaanai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 129 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jaanai at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jaanai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2000
- Peak year (2014)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
129 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 13 births in a single year.
Jaanai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 67 births that decade — 52% of Jaanai's all-time total
Jaanai decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 53 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jaanai's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Jaanai by state
Where Jaanai concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 3.9% |
5 of 129 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.