Janicia
Janicia was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janicia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,564, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1998, the peak
Janicia peaked in 1998, when 13 girls were given it, #7,271 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,564 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,570 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,396 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,759 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,127 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,790 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,931 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,561 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,325 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,988 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 10 | #9,797 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,432 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,224 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,740 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,271 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,987 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,926 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,934 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,381 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,721 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,209 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,125 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,945 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,062 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,881 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,366 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janicia, and how old are they?
An estimated 211 Americans named Janicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 219 people named Janicia (219 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 409,737 babies since 1880, Janicia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 76 babies recorded by SSA was a Janicia (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 Janicia
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 Janicia and names like it
- Compare Janicia and JaniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanicia peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janicia since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Janicia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janicia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.