Janay
Janay was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,275 among girls’ names; 5,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,700 Americans named Janay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 24 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janay?
#7,275 among girls’ names, 2025
Janay fell from #3,071 in 2015 to #7,275 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.8 to 9.3 per million.
596 babies in 1987, the peak
Janay peaked in 1987, when 596 girls were given it, #388 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,275 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,382 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,416 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,104 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,442 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,622 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,511 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,226 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,617 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,194 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,071 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,945 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,739 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,462 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,783 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 113 | #1,810 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,564 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,166 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,088 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,592 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 101 | #1,875 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 118 | #1,633 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 124 | #1,525 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,528 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,560 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,433 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,264 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 204 | #968 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 192 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 245 | #808 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 221 | #881 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 173 | #1,056 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 248 | #809 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 261 | #783 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 292 | #717 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 314 | #651 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 430 | #513 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 596 | #388 | 0.34 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,203 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,614 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,396 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,285 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,722 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,804 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,638 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,447 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,798 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,680 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,275 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,864 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 71 | #1,392 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,477 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,015 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,596 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,838 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,312 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,879 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,909 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janay, and how old are they?
5,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,832 Americans ever recorded as Janay. The median Janay alive today is 33 years old; half are between 24 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 4,939 people named Janay (4,918 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,631 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 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 328 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 390 |
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 Janay born?
The states with the most babies named Janay are California, New York and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 575 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 527 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 461 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 320 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 247 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 189 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 186 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 185 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 169 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 147 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Janay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janay is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1952 it was given 4.4 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 Janay 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 559,572 babies since 1880, Janay is the seventh most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 2,092 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Janay
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 Janay and names like it
- Compare Janay and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJanay peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janay since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Janay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.