Janica
Janica was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 593 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,861, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1989, the peak
Janica peaked in 1989, when 28 girls were given it, #3,598 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #14,861 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,221 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,636 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,099 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,629 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,087 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,789 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,833 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,279 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,324 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #12,987 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,094 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,996 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,453 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,342 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,603 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,313 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,102 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,800 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,280 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,506 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,349 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,204 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,574 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,598 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,544 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,604 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,804 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,032 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,583 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,008 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,232 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,054 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,206 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,209 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,426 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,318 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,241 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,277 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,136 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,318 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,384 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,231 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,412 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,438 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,912 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,310 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,016 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,958 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,972 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,139 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,691 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,103 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,324 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,760 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janica, and how old are they?
An estimated 566 Americans named Janica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 30 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 657 people named Janica (657 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 574 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 415,920 babies since 1880, Janica is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 86 babies recorded by SSA was a Janica (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Janica
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 Janica and names like it
- Compare Janica and JaniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJanica peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janica since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Janica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.