Janee
Janee was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,911 among girls’ names; 3,262 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,120 Americans named Janee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janee?
#13,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Janee fell from #9,177 in 2015 to #13,911 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.7 per million.
168 babies in 1989, the peak
Janee peaked in 1989, when 168 babies were given it (162 girls, #1,050 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,911 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,622 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,705 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,010 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,870 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,287 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,115 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,177 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,794 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,769 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #9,994 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,578 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,326 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,452 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,630 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,186 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,877 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,300 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,774 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,200 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,798 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,784 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,792 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,318 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,787 | 49.2 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,789 | 48.3 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,771 | 47.9 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,531 | 56.9 |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,572 | 54.3 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,503 | 58.0 |
| 1992 | 155 | #1,139 | 84.1 |
| 1991 | 140 | #1,220 | 74.7 |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,162 | 78.0 |
| 1989 | 162 | #1,050 | 87.9 |
| 1988 | 129 | #1,177 | 72.4 |
| 1987 | 118 | #1,217 | 67.9 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,518 | 47.2 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,912 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,735 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,033 | 29.9 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,793 | 36.0 |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,570 | 45.0 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,506 | 47.6 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,574 | 45.5 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,871 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,865 | 35.2 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,916 | 32.1 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,423 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,458 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,424 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,624 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,148 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,867 | 26.9 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,942 | 24.9 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,069 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,454 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,371 | 15.4 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,093 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,040 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,389 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,085 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,879 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,029 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,694 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,796 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,974 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,411 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,146 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,073 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,307 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,274 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,759 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,618 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,922 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,021 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,966 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,172 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janee has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Janee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janee, and how old are they?
3,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,262 Americans ever recorded as Janee. The median Janee alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,900 people named Janee (2,890 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 184 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 614 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 648 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 85 |
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 Janee born?
The states with the most babies named Janee are California, New York and Michigan, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 385 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 231 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 90 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 84 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 81 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 55 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 51 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Janee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Janee?
Janee is a less common spelling of Janie: SSA has recorded 3,262 Janee and 75,874 Janie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 603,182 babies since 1880, Janee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 2,022 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 Janee
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 Janee and names like it
- Compare Janee and JanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJanee peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janee since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Janee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.