Janiah
Janiah was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,670 among girls’ names; 4,598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,560 Americans named Janiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janiah?
#3,670 among girls’ names, 2025
Janiah fell from #1,749 in 2015 to #3,670 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.2 to 25.5 per million.
367 babies in 2008, the peak
Janiah peaked in 2008, when 367 girls were given it, #795 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,670 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,250 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,717 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,941 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,570 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,182 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,994 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,868 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,024 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,749 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,516 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,284 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,349 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 230 | #1,072 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 285 | #914 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 297 | #914 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 367 | #795 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 313 | #889 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 326 | #828 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 284 | #889 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 253 | #952 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 222 | #1,031 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 189 | #1,109 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,259 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,232 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,444 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,055 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,492 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,393 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,404 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,840 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janiah, and how old are they?
4,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,598 Americans ever recorded as Janiah. The median Janiah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,296 people named Janiah (3,275 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,224 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 50 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,220 |
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 Janiah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,600 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,521 | 0.7× |
Where Janiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janiah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1992 it was given 1.9 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 Janiah 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 219,083 babies since 1880, Janiah is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 1,061 babies (3.9%), 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 Janiah
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 Janiah and names like it
- Compare Janiah and JanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaniah peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Janiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.