Janae
Janae was given to 122 girls in 2025, #1,687 among girls’ names; 18,058 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,600 Americans named Janae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janae mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janae is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Jane, possibly influenced by Renée.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janae?
#1,687 among girls’ names, 2025
Janae fell from #1,003 in 2015 to #1,687 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.08 per 1,000.
589 babies in 2000, the peak
Janae peaked in 2000, when 589 girls were given it, #471 among girls’ names. The 122 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,687 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,409 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,327 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 168 | #1,375 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 172 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,232 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 201 | #1,191 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 216 | #1,150 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 244 | #1,072 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 269 | #1,003 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 296 | #915 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 326 | #823 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 332 | #808 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 394 | #706 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 407 | #700 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 400 | #727 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 369 | #792 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 434 | #676 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 422 | #677 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 458 | #617 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 490 | #578 | 0.27 |
| 2003 | 494 | #563 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 524 | #522 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 495 | #540 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 589 | #471 | 0.32 |
| 1999 | 516 | #505 | 0.29 |
| 1998 | 536 | #479 | 0.30 |
| 1997 | 535 | #468 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 474 | #505 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 471 | #515 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 545 | #464 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 449 | #534 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 488 | #496 | 0.26 |
| 1991 | 525 | #466 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 480 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 1989 | 461 | #508 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 432 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 442 | #490 | 0.25 |
| 1986 | 245 | #727 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 216 | #780 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 215 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 221 | #740 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 216 | #765 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 206 | #790 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 187 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 188 | #829 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 152 | #932 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 173 | #851 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 201 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,504 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,257 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,612 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,672 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,663 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,616 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,670 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,866 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,958 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,226 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,573 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,189 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,377 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,182 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,985 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janae has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 79 years of records.
Girls and boys named Janae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janae, and how old are they?
17,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 18,058 Americans ever recorded as Janae. The median Janae alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 14,882 people named Janae (14,841 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,826 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 265 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Janae born?
The states with the most babies named Janae are Texas, California and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,330 | 0.7× |
| California | 12 | #1,788 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,198 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,129 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,094 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 6 | #976 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,227 | 0.8× |
Where Janae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janae is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1939 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Janae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 614,777 babies since 1880, Janae is the sixth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 122 of their 2,026 babies (6.0%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Janae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Janae and names like it
- Compare Janae and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanae peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janae since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Janae: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Janae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.