Janene
Janene was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 3,545 Americans have been recorded with it between 1929 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Janene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 52 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,969, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
231 babies in 1970, the peak
Janene peaked in 1970, when 231 girls were given it, #684 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,969 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,535 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,606 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,329 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,461 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | #7,200 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,347 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,369 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,609 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,541 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,483 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,274 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,641 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,036 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,676 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,521 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,755 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 72 | #1,441 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 84 | #1,242 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 88 | #1,213 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 113 | #1,067 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 231 | #684 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 150 | #847 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 98 | #1,069 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,123 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 84 | #1,163 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 80 | #1,203 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 110 | #1,029 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,131 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 120 | #990 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 105 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 95 | #1,099 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 73 | #1,244 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 76 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 74 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 77 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 73 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 72 | #1,101 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 63 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,459 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,919 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,572 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janene, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 3,545 Americans ever recorded as Janene. The median Janene alive today is 58 years old; half are between 52 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 3,158 people named Janene (3,155 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,149 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 97 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 344 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 41 |
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 Janene born?
The states with the most babies named Janene are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 487 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 167 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 152 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 105 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 74 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 56 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 55 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Iowa | 48 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Janene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janene is most over-represented in Utah: since 1929 it was given 3.7 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 Janene 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 572,099 babies since 1880, Janene is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,845 babies recorded by SSA was a Janene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Janene
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 Janene and names like it
- Compare Janene and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJanene peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janene since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Janene.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janene alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.