Janet — #2427 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Janet

The Social Security Administration has registered 556,709 babies named Janet between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janet currently holds the #2427 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 18,477 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janet performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 167,519 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Janet shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 47,957 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Janet in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janet 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 556,709 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.