Janai
Janai is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,669 among girls’ names and #11,228 among boys’, #5,865 among all names counting both); 3,193 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,140 Americans named Janai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janai?
#3,669 among girls’ names, 2025
Janai fell from #2,487 in 2015 to #3,669 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.9 to 25.5 per million.
118 babies in 2006, the peak
Janai peaked in 2006, when 118 babies were given it (113 girls, #1,812 among girls’ names). The 47 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,669 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,949 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,446 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,790 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,133 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,942 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,714 | 37.5 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,820 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,728 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,078 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,487 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,627 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,642 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,785 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,356 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 88 | #2,211 | 49.5 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,624 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,343 | 43.9 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,202 | 46.8 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,812 | 59.4 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,896 | 55.2 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,139 | 45.7 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,791 | 57.5 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,052 | 46.7 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,822 | 53.9 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,217 | 39.1 |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,831 | 49.0 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,872 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,588 | 58.0 |
| 1996 | 67 | #2,067 | 38.2 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,716 | 48.3 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,799 | 44.8 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,294 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,197 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,391 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,031 | 34.8 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,966 | 35.3 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,843 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,738 | 39.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,677 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,770 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,552 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,087 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,458 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,210 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,252 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,181 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,226 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,643 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,748 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,374 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,169 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,934 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,822 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,229 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,601 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,949 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,469 | 4.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,737 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,193 Americans recorded as Janai, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Janai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janai, and how old are they?
3,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,193 Americans ever recorded as Janai. The median Janai alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,524 people named Janai (2,385 women and girls, 139 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,873 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 143 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 786 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 755 |
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 Janai born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,480 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,631 | 0.9× |
Where Janai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janai is most over-represented in New York: since 1960 it was given 1.4 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 Janai 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 561,143 babies since 1880, Janai is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 2,007 babies (2.3%), the sixth 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 Janai
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 Janai and names like it
- Compare Janai and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanai peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janai since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Janai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.