Janely
Janely was given to 64 girls in 2025, #2,706 among girls’ names; 2,133 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Janely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janely?
#2,706 among girls’ names, 2025
Janely fell from #2,514 in 2015 to #2,706 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 39.8 per million.
114 babies in 2008, the peak
Janely peaked in 2008, when 114 girls were given it, #1,868 among girls’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,706 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,308 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,798 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,244 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,134 | 31.7 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,468 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,526 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,268 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,032 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,881 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,514 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,986 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,831 | 63.3 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,576 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,977 | 56.8 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,766 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,579 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,868 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,220 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,790 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,266 | 43.3 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,013 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,377 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,614 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,341 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,181 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,156 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,777 | 49.8 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,998 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,401 | 30.8 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,940 | 22.7 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,557 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,780 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,028 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,390 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,367 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,941 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,424 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,010 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,018 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,182 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janely, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,133 Americans ever recorded as Janely. The median Janely alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,606 people named Janely (1,600 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 268 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 739 |
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 Janely born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,377 | 1.4× |
| California | 14 | #1,615 | 2.0× |
Where Janely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janely is most over-represented in California: since 1985 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 Janely 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 67,049 babies since 1880, Janely is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 621 babies (10%), 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 Janely
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 Janely and names like it
- Compare Janely and JanelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanely peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janely since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Janely.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janely alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.