Janey
Janey was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,489 among girls’ names; 5,044 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Janey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 25 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janey is “a diminutive of the female given name Jane.”
From Jane + -y, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janey?
#3,489 among girls’ names, 2025
Janey rose from #4,179 in 2015 to #3,489 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 27.4 per million.
108 babies in 1947, the peak
Janey peaked in 1947, when 108 girls were given it, #843 among girls’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,489 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,999 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,504 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,849 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,049 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,301 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,203 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,816 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,433 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,884 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,179 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,613 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,198 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,537 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,497 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,439 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,053 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,033 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,610 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,385 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,425 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,705 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,621 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,076 | 26.2 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,654 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,182 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,205 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,248 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,184 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,105 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,801 | 24.5 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,420 | 29.7 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,310 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,934 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,392 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,208 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,283 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 59 | #2,018 | 33.1 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,799 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,079 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,724 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,359 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,737 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,387 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,423 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,670 | 21.1 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,752 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 41 | #2,248 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,273 | 26.1 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,978 | 30.7 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,478 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,707 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,101 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,955 | 27.6 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,081 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,667 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,606 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,865 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,931 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,607 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,781 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 63 | #1,428 | 33.2 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,325 | 36.3 |
| 1962 | 69 | #1,336 | 35.1 |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,236 | 39.6 |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,395 | 30.7 |
| 1959 | 79 | #1,203 | 39.0 |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,367 | 29.8 |
| 1957 | 87 | #1,126 | 42.5 |
| 1956 | 100 | #1,025 | 49.8 |
| 1955 | 92 | #1,050 | 47.1 |
| 1954 | 83 | #1,080 | 42.7 |
| 1953 | 98 | #957 | 52.1 |
| 1952 | 98 | #938 | 52.8 |
| 1951 | 70 | #1,109 | 38.9 |
| 1950 | 86 | #984 | 50.2 |
| 1949 | 100 | #881 | 58.4 |
| 1948 | 95 | #891 | 56.0 |
| 1947 | 108 | #843 | 60.9 |
| 1946 | 97 | #839 | 61.7 |
| 1945 | 90 | #796 | 68.9 |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,055 | 41.4 |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,095 | 38.7 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,168 | 34.1 |
| 1941 | 49 | #1,045 | 40.6 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,124 | 36.7 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,252 | 31.9 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,105 | 39.0 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,209 | 33.8 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,173 | 35.6 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,145 | 36.2 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,245 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,870 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,650 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,062 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,359 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,914 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,443 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,745 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,642 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,389 | 27.9 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,361 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,866 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,149 | 15.0 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,700 | 21.1 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,849 | 18.4 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,499 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,434 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,047 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,074 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,703 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,510 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,635 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,903 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,321 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,584 | 12.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,206 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,077 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,605 | 24.0 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,644 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,717 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,309 | 30.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,583 | 22.4 |
| 1886 | 9 | #798 | 62.3 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,087 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janey, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 5,044 Americans ever recorded as Janey. The median Janey alive today is 49 years old; half are between 25 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 4,394 people named Janey (4,368 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 | 248 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 628 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 478 |
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 Janey born?
The states with the most babies named Janey are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 462 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 385 | #3,295 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 88 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 69 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 54 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Janey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janey is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Janey 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 582,554 babies since 1880, Janey is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 2,137 babies (2.1%), again the eighth 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 Janey
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 Janey and names like it
- Compare Janey and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJaney peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janey since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Janey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.