Janalee
Janalee was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janalee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,700, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1962, the peak
Janalee peaked in 1962, when 31 girls were given it, #2,132 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,700 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,542 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,512 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,558 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,121 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,286 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,488 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,171 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,792 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,762 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,697 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,945 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,778 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,304 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,456 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,312 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,273 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,322 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,326 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,598 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,403 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,025 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,922 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,030 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,606 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,295 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,701 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,716 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,789 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,188 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,218 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,255 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,818 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,375 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,343 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,893 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,026 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,316 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,749 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,686 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,356 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,315 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,320 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,848 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,486 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,049 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,502 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,391 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,477 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,972 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,625 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,384 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,132 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,379 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,028 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,252 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,527 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,190 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,345 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,885 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,633 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,390 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,447 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,368 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,135 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,170 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,641 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,135 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,424 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,186 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,231 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,350 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,892 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,306 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,238 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,244 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,605 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,020 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janalee, and how old are they?
An estimated 876 Americans named Janalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 39 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 944 people named Janalee (944 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 902 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Janalee born?
The states with the most babies named Janalee are Utah, California and Illinois, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 135 | not ranked | 14.6× |
| California | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Janalee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janalee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1934 it was given 14.6 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 Janalee 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 58,408 babies since 1880, Janalee is the second most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 345 babies recorded by SSA was a Janalee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Janalee
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 Janalee and names like it
- Compare Janalee and JanelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJanalee peaked in 1962.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janalee since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Janalee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janalee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.