Janessa — #1573 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Janessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,601 babies named Janessa between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janessa currently holds the #1573 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 556 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janessa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 4,712 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Janessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,844 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Janessa in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janessa 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 14,601 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.