Janeen
Janeen was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 6,544 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,620 Americans named Janeen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 47 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janeen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janeen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janeen is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janeen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,138, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
272 babies in 1970, the peak
Janeen peaked in 1970, when 272 girls were given it, #626 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,122 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,491 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,277 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,393 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,980 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,952 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,091 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,992 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,293 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 21 | #6,416 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,022 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,104 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,507 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,981 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,981 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,161 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,945 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,099 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,496 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,270 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,872 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,399 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,555 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,779 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,883 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,519 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,554 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,074 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,279 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,448 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,335 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 182 | #854 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 106 | #1,239 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 107 | #1,213 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,017 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 123 | #1,062 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 123 | #1,018 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 127 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 155 | #848 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 156 | #838 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 180 | #770 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 218 | #699 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 272 | #626 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 269 | #610 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 181 | #733 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 168 | #758 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 156 | #790 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 131 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 167 | #809 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 130 | #927 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 155 | #849 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 143 | #906 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 140 | #879 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 125 | #938 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 114 | #969 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 125 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 128 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 122 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 152 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 113 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 141 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 93 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 84 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 97 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 72 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 75 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 50 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,581 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,341 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,866 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janeen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janeen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janeen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janeen, and how old are they?
5,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 6,544 Americans ever recorded as Janeen. The median Janeen alive today is 56 years old; half are between 47 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 5,629 people named Janeen (5,621 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,890 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 164 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,410 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 985 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 246 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 36 |
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 Janeen born?
The states with the most babies named Janeen are California, New York and Illinois, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 847 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 541 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 392 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 381 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 314 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 308 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 195 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 145 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 98 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 96 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Janeen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janeen is most over-represented in California: since 1930 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 Janeen 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, Janeen is the most given (57% 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 Janeen
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 Janeen and names like it
- Compare Janeen and JannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJaneen peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janeen since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Janeen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janeen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.