Janese
Janese was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 1,111 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Janese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 32 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janese?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,560, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1961, the peak
Janese peaked in 1961, when 35 girls were given it, #1,972 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,560 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,219 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,475 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,400 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,766 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,908 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,924 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,945 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,177 | 6.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,544 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 15 | #7,668 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,919 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,722 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,508 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,914 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,323 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,422 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,733 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,020 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,101 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,915 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,328 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,151 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,572 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,384 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,140 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,648 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,331 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,287 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,803 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,901 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,219 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,471 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,083 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,016 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,544 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,482 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,779 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,120 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,446 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,276 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,826 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,047 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,212 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,186 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,149 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,871 | 13.0 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,379 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,912 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,451 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,315 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,161 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,814 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,661 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,972 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,850 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,028 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,906 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,858 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,489 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,666 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,395 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,093 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,357 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,184 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,105 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,484 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,577 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,524 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,664 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,245 | 4.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,933 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,652 | 6.1 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,965 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janese has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janese, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,111 Americans ever recorded as Janese. The median Janese alive today is 45 years old; half are between 32 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 962 people named Janese (959 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,037 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 238 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 251 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 297 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 181 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,855 babies since 1880, Janese is the third most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 125 babies recorded by SSA was a Janese (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 Janese
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 Janese and names like it
- Compare Janese and JanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJanese peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janese since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Janese.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janese alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.