Janesa
Janesa was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 322 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janesa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,559, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2007, the peak
Janesa peaked in 2007, when 20 girls were given it, #6,664 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,559 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,278 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,635 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,694 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,651 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,696 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,139 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,996 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,695 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,664 | 10.4 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #10,187 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,070 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,225 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,776 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,008 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,666 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,946 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,913 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,732 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,019 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,419 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,831 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,294 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,208 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,203 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,932 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,693 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,334 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,159 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,321 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,045 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janesa 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 Janesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janesa, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Janesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 353 people named Janesa (349 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 318 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Janesa?
Janesa is a less common spelling of Janessa: SSA has recorded 322 Janesa and 14,722 Janessa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,538 babies since 1880, Janesa is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 135 babies recorded by SSA was a Janesa (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 Janesa
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 Janesa and names like it
- Compare Janesa and JanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanesa peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janesa since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Janesa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janesa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.