Jania
Jania was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,002 among girls’ names; 3,021 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,970 Americans named Jania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jania?
#6,002 among girls’ names, 2025
Jania fell from #4,440 in 2015 to #6,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 12.4 per million.
194 babies in 2005, the peak
Jania peaked in 2005, when 194 girls were given it, #1,186 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,002 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,671 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,120 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,008 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,904 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,162 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,903 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,177 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,256 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,200 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,440 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,803 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,604 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,554 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,140 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,842 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,680 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,361 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 190 | #1,263 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 194 | #1,186 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 180 | #1,191 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 146 | #1,332 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,406 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 125 | #1,474 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,789 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,505 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,434 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,402 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,236 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,115 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,152 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,899 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,943 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,649 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,543 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,718 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,276 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,937 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,046 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,256 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,409 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,041 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,063 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,895 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,294 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,906 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,189 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,015 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,662 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jania, and how old are they?
2,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,021 Americans ever recorded as Jania. The median Jania alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,603 people named Jania (2,598 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,721 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 34 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 319 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 558 |
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 Jania born?
The states with the most babies named Jania are Florida, New York and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 199 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 182 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 134 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 133 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 131 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 98 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 64 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 52 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jania is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jania is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1952 it was given 1.4 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 Jania with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jania?
Jania is a less common spelling of Janiyah: SSA has recorded 3,021 Jania and 13,605 Janiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 588,658 babies since 1880, Jania is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 1,986 babies (1.0%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Jania
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 Jania and names like it
- Compare Jania and JaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJania peaked in 2005.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jania since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.