Janellie
Janellie was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,912 among girls’ names; 287 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janellie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janellie?
#13,912 among girls’ names, 2025
Janellie fell from #12,302 in 2015 to #13,912 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
20 babies in 2014, the peak
Janellie peaked in 2014, when 20 girls were given it, #6,298 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,912 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,542 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,153 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,423 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,545 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,707 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,836 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,123 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,078 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,117 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,302 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,298 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,398 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,650 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,954 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,443 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,208 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,369 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,042 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,543 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,433 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,061 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,985 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,320 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,430 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,873 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,601 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,604 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,458 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,949 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,126 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janellie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janellie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janellie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janellie, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Janellie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Janellie (209 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Janellie?
Janellie is a less common spelling of Janelly: SSA has recorded 287 Janellie and 2,476 Janelly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,372 babies since 1880, Janellie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 468 babies (1.3%), the seventh 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 Janellie
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 Janellie and names like it
- Compare Janellie and JanellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJanellie peaked in 2014.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Janellie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janellie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.