Girls' name · since 1996

Janavia

127 babies named Janavia in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#24,487 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,846 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
127
born since 1996
2000s
peak decade

Janavia currently ranks #13846 among girls' names in America, with 127 babies recorded since 1996.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Janavia has been recorded 127 times among girls since 1996, currently ranked #13846 nationally and more common than 20% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2000s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1996 to 2025.

  • #24,487 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,846 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 127 born since 1996
  • 2000s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Janavia ranks #24,487 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,846 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 127 born since 1996, peaking in the 2000s.

#24,487 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,846 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
127
born since 1996
2000s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%19.9%
Janavia vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Janavia's 127 recorded births place it above 66.07% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Janavia compares

127 29th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Janavia's all-time total is 66% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Janavia Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 127 376 567,345
Peak-year births 12 21 19,840

Janavia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Janavia's SSA record in two at 2006 and the more recent half accounts for 45% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 55%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2008, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2004 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Janavia popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2004)
12
Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
468101214 1996199920042007201020212025 6

Janavia by decade

2000s is the heaviest window (69 births, 54% of the file).

2000s was Janavia's strongest decade.

69 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.

Janavia births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2000s at 69 births (54% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Janavia?
Since 1996, Social Security records show 127 babies named Janavia. Across the full SSA archive it ranks #24,487 of 72,339 girls' names by total births. In 2025, it holds #13,846 of 17,297 among girls. Its busiest year on record was 2004, with 12 births.
Where does Janavia sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Janavia ranks #24,487 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,846 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Janavia most popular?
Janavia was most popular in the 2000s decade with 69 total births. The single peak year was 2004.
How long has the name Janavia been used?
The SSA has tracked Janavia since 1996 -- 30 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Janavia?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Janet, Janice, Jane, Janie, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

What to do with Janavia's data

  • Janavia's decade-level peak was the 2000s (69 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.

Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Janavia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1996–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Janavia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.