Janesha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Janesha

The Social Security Administration has registered 519 babies named Janesha between 1983 and 2015, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 43 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janesha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 285 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Janesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Janesha in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janesha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 519 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.