Janea
Janea was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,897 among girls’ names; 2,027 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Janea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janea?
#15,897 among girls’ names, 2025
Janea fell from #8,172 in 2015 to #15,897 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
76 babies in 1993, the peak
Janea peaked in 1993, when 76 girls were given it, #1,868 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,897 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,658 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,609 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,733 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,742 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,837 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,561 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,535 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,005 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,168 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,172 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,205 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,343 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,765 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,241 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,498 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,136 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,610 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,187 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,102 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,737 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,896 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,057 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,209 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,471 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,749 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,317 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,291 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,488 | 29.9 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,322 | 32.5 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,463 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,269 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,868 | 42.0 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,082 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,997 | 36.8 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,053 | 34.2 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,838 | 39.1 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,303 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,999 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,998 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,328 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,238 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,565 | 21.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,858 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,505 | 22.8 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,553 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,164 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,037 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,029 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,331 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,694 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,865 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,194 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,823 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,849 | 9.6 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,503 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,187 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,972 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,182 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,051 | 4.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,029 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janea, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,027 Americans ever recorded as Janea. The median Janea alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,771 people named Janea (1,758 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,941 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 259 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 819 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 738 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142 |
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 Janea born?
The states with the most babies named Janea are California, New York and Texas, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 216 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Janea 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 579,537 babies since 1880, Janea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 2,098 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Janea
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 Janea and names like it
- Compare Janea and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanea peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janea since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Janea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.