Janeth
Janeth was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,398 among girls’ names; 4,792 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,340 Americans named Janeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janeth mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Janeth is “a female given name, equivalent to English Janet”
/xaˈned/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janeth?
#4,398 among girls’ names, 2025
Janeth fell from #2,144 in 2015 to #4,398 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 49.9 to 19.9 per million.
175 babies in 2003, the peak
Janeth peaked in 2003, when 175 girls were given it, #1,214 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,398 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,704 | 39.5 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,490 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,354 | 48.2 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,179 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,359 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,527 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,821 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,533 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,397 | 44.0 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #2,144 | 49.9 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,163 | 49.3 |
| 2013 | 100 | #1,972 | 57.0 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,036 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,846 | 62.0 |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,304 | 46.7 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,964 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,599 | 75.1 |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,540 | 77.5 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,362 | 89.4 |
| 2005 | 171 | #1,303 | 92.5 |
| 2004 | 170 | #1,266 | 92.6 |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,214 | 95.8 |
| 2002 | 170 | #1,199 | 94.6 |
| 2001 | 132 | #1,429 | 73.3 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,436 | 70.5 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,517 | 63.7 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,680 | 53.8 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,489 | 63.2 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,588 | 55.9 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,565 | 55.2 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,769 | 45.9 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,532 | 56.4 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,530 | 55.3 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,491 | 56.0 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,705 | 45.3 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,003 | 34.2 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,891 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,278 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,749 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,771 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,648 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,172 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,231 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,284 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,397 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,208 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,339 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,035 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,750 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,458 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,171 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,296 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,383 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,257 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,597 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,372 | 10.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,930 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,032 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,042 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,199 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,543 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,674 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,675 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,588 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,515 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,096 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,788 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,018 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,667 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,221 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,635 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,158 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,276 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,931 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,301 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,910 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,734 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,532 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,428 | 24.5 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,330 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,608 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,487 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,715 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,996 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,914 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,775 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,043 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,323 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,491 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,023 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,208 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,418 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,147 | 14.1 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,903 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,369 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,044 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,481 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,793 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,687 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,341 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,656 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,371 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,220 | 5.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,153 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,127 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,267 | 8.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janeth has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janeth, and how old are they?
4,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 4,792 Americans ever recorded as Janeth. The median Janeth alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 8,755 people named Janeth (8,735 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 107 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 218 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 162 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 918 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 841 |
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).
Where are babies named Janeth born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,790 | 2.3× |
Where Janeth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janeth is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Janeth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,985 babies since 1880, Janeth is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 32 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Janeth
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 Janeth and names like it
- Compare Janeth and JanithBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaneth peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janeth since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Janeth: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Janeth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janeth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.