Janella
Janella was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,116 among girls’ names; 1,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Janella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 25 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janella?
#9,116 among girls’ names, 2025
Janella fell from #5,362 in 2015 to #9,116 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.8 per million.
58 babies in 1971, the peak
Janella peaked in 1971, when 58 girls were given it, #1,616 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,116 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,062 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,256 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,789 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,076 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,722 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,386 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,674 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,384 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,520 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,362 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,536 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,200 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,443 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,225 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,263 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,994 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,911 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,408 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,541 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,296 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,330 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,984 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,241 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,919 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,227 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,912 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,600 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,898 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,373 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,726 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,931 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,720 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,285 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,110 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,048 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,731 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,421 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,050 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,422 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,031 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,945 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,863 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,859 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,677 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,321 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,254 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,023 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,631 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,312 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,178 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,890 | 31.3 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,240 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,110 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 58 | #1,616 | 34.9 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,179 | 21.2 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,729 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,503 | 15.2 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,250 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,793 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,000 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,580 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,517 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,882 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,494 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,603 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,542 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,797 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,376 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,488 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,364 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,140 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,260 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,723 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,901 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,827 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,781 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,213 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,487 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,945 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,656 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,510 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,136 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,294 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,588 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,148 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,272 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,163 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,619 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,963 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,638 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,026 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,513 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,706 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,084 | 8.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,307 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,423 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,050 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,546 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,655 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,370 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,329 | 4.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,924 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janella, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,968 Americans ever recorded as Janella. The median Janella alive today is 45 years old; half are between 25 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 1,671 people named Janella (1,665 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 54 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 278 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 509 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 373 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 231 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 252 |
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 Janella born?
The states with the most babies named Janella are California, New York and Ohio, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 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 Janella 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 68,196 babies since 1880, Janella is the fifth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 615 babies (1.8%), 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 Janella
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 Janella and names like it
- Compare Janella and JanelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJanella peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janella since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Janella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.