Janelly
Janelly was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,226 among girls’ names; 2,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Janelly 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 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janelly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janelly?
#3,226 among girls’ names, 2025
Janelly fell from #2,065 in 2015 to #3,226 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.2 to 30.5 per million.
108 babies in 2018, the peak
Janelly peaked in 2018, when 108 girls were given it, #1,874 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,226 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,670 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,430 | 46.1 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,646 | 40.2 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,296 | 48.8 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,562 | 41.4 |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,059 | 54.8 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,874 | 63.5 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,522 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,419 | 43.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,065 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,485 | 40.9 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,959 | 57.6 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,947 | 57.4 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,889 | 60.3 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,265 | 47.8 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,346 | 45.2 |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,994 | 55.5 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,167 | 47.9 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,100 | 48.9 |
| 2005 | 81 | #2,246 | 43.8 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,489 | 37.0 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,616 | 33.4 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,075 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,267 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,717 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,319 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,411 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,947 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,575 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,012 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,556 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,450 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,441 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,753 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,456 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,161 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,714 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,404 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,349 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janelly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janelly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janelly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janelly, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,476 Americans ever recorded as Janelly. The median Janelly alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,725 people named Janelly (1,720 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,097 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 265 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 989 |
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 Janelly born?
The states with the most babies named Janelly are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,789 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,291 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,501 | 1.1× |
Where Janelly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janelly is most over-represented in California: since 1986 it was given 2.0 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 Janelly 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 66,290 babies since 1880, Janelly is the second most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 523 babies (9.4%), the third 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 Janelly
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 Janelly and names like it
- Compare Janelly and JanelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJanelly peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janelly since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Janelly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janelly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.