Janean
Janean was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 1,567 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Janean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,906, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1962, the peak
Janean peaked in 1962, when 53 girls were given it, #1,547 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,906 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,137 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,924 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,555 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,201 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,980 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,872 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,339 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,085 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,662 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,414 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,380 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,012 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,780 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,806 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,367 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,931 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,940 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,422 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,717 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,085 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,354 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,449 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,441 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,206 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,805 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,088 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,882 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,645 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,351 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,681 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,375 | 23.3 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,270 | 23.8 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,864 | 30.9 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,189 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,896 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,889 | 26.3 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,716 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,036 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,233 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,680 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,082 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,901 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,326 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,547 | 27.0 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,125 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,569 | 25.2 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,704 | 20.8 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,229 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,191 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,346 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,886 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,962 | 14.9 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,044 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,756 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,937 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,930 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,559 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,212 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,874 | 15.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,425 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,242 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,688 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,135 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,720 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,744 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,239 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,007 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,644 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,283 | 7.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,560 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,493 | 11.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janean has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janean, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,567 Americans ever recorded as Janean. The median Janean alive today is 56 years old; half are between 46 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,379 people named Janean (1,376 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 436 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 525 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 277 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55 |
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 Janean born?
The states with the most babies named Janean are California, Michigan and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | 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 Janean 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,403 babies since 1880, Janean is the third most given (14% of them).
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 Janean
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 Janean and names like it
- Compare Janean and JaneenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJanean peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janean since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Janean.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janean alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.