Janaya
Janaya was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,628 among girls’ names; 3,965 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,910 Americans named Janaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janaya?
#2,628 among girls’ names, 2025
Janaya fell from #2,572 in 2015 to #2,628 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 39.2 to 41.1 per million.
198 babies in 2006, the peak
Janaya peaked in 2006, when 198 girls were given it, #1,218 among girls’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,628 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,950 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,447 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,670 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,427 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,570 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,768 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,721 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,987 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,294 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,572 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,061 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,039 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,218 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,797 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,538 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 158 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 192 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,258 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 198 | #1,218 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 189 | #1,212 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,203 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,351 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 176 | #1,168 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 148 | #1,301 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 131 | #1,413 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,505 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,714 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,916 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 66 | #2,090 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,635 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,844 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,650 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,442 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,224 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,452 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,124 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,900 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,324 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,275 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,408 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,169 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,594 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,481 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,520 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,028 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,996 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,499 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,990 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janaya, and how old are they?
3,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,965 Americans ever recorded as Janaya. The median Janaya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,917 people named Janaya (2,909 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 579 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 866 |
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 Janaya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 14 | #1,083 | 1.3× |
| New York | 7 | #1,729 | 1.3× |
Where Janaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janaya is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 1.3 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 Janaya 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 119,933 babies since 1880, Janaya is the eighth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 956 babies (6.9%), 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 Janaya
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 Janaya and names like it
- Compare Janaya and JanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanaya peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Janaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.