Janelli
Janelli was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,327 among girls’ names; 291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janelli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janelli?
#11,327 among girls’ names, 2025
Janelli rose from #12,301 in 2015 to #11,327 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
18 babies in 2007, the peak
Janelli peaked in 2007, when 18 girls were given it, #7,213 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,327 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,621 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,152 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,632 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,544 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,616 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,562 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,848 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,077 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,492 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,301 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,207 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,766 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,967 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,839 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,778 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,995 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,887 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,213 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,542 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,729 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,205 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,758 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,478 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,874 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,820 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,086 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,664 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,925 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,931 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,300 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,034 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,848 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,880 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janelli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janelli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janelli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janelli, and how old are they?
An estimated 288 Americans named Janelli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 265 people named Janelli (265 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Janelli?
Janelli is a less common spelling of Janelly: SSA has recorded 291 Janelli and 2,476 Janelly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,218 babies since 1880, Janelli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 526 babies (1.5%), 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 Janelli
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 Janelli and names like it
- Compare Janelli and JanellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanelli peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janelli since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Janelli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janelli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.