Janie
Janie was given to 168 girls in 2025, #1,329 among girls’ names; 75,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 41,000 Americans named Janie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 48 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janie is “a diminutive of the female given name Jane.”
From Jane + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janie?
#1,329 among girls’ names, 2025
Janie rose from #1,389 in 2015 to #1,329 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 0.10 per 1,000.
1,853 babies in 1947, the peak
Janie peaked in 1947, when 1,853 babies were given it (1,845 girls, #161 among girls’ names). The 168 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,329 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,537 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,545 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,459 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,633 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,785 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,533 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,679 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,639 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 170 | #1,389 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 148 | #1,499 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 163 | #1,411 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,581 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,460 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 203 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 201 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,403 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 186 | #1,284 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,056 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 223 | #1,039 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,125 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 236 | #945 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,003 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 208 | #1,015 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 207 | #990 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 210 | #970 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 238 | #859 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 231 | #862 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 248 | #800 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 285 | #731 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 270 | #762 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 304 | #710 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 321 | #673 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 323 | #666 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 294 | #689 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 317 | #626 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 268 | #690 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 297 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 299 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 306 | #589 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 309 | #580 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 335 | #550 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 338 | #552 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 316 | #583 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 330 | #558 | 0.21 |
| 1978 | 303 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 353 | #521 | 0.23 |
| 1976 | 360 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 1975 | 351 | #511 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 354 | #497 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 389 | #468 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 441 | #435 | 0.29 |
| 1971 | 454 | #454 | 0.27 |
| 1970 | 475 | #456 | 0.27 |
| 1969 | 498 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 1968 | 490 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 554 | #390 | 0.34 |
| 1966 | 595 | #373 | 0.35 |
| 1965 | 620 | #365 | 0.35 |
| 1964 | 752 | #347 | 0.40 |
| 1963 | 940 | #301 | 0.49 |
| 1962 | 952 | #299 | 0.48 |
| 1961 | 1,049 | #284 | 0.52 |
| 1960 | 1,082 | #274 | 0.54 |
| 1959 | 1,128 | #262 | 0.56 |
| 1958 | 1,215 | #246 | 0.60 |
| 1957 | 1,304 | #235 | 0.64 |
| 1956 | 1,410 | #215 | 0.70 |
| 1955 | 1,483 | #209 | 0.76 |
| 1954 | 1,492 | #205 | 0.77 |
| 1953 | 1,578 | #197 | 0.84 |
| 1952 | 1,569 | #189 | 0.85 |
| 1951 | 1,707 | #176 | 0.95 |
| 1950 | 1,729 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1949 | 1,737 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1948 | 1,579 | #176 | 0.93 |
| 1947 | 1,845 | #161 | 1.0 |
| 1946 | 1,704 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 1,469 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1944 | 1,163 | #186 | 0.88 |
| 1943 | 1,065 | #198 | 0.76 |
| 1942 | 949 | #212 | 0.70 |
| 1941 | 797 | #217 | 0.66 |
| 1940 | 811 | #213 | 0.71 |
| 1939 | 758 | #222 | 0.69 |
| 1938 | 778 | #218 | 0.71 |
| 1937 | 706 | #230 | 0.66 |
| 1936 | 754 | #216 | 0.72 |
| 1935 | 744 | #227 | 0.71 |
| 1934 | 771 | #223 | 0.74 |
| 1933 | 710 | #229 | 0.70 |
| 1932 | 704 | #229 | 0.66 |
| 1931 | 696 | #230 | 0.65 |
| 1930 | 707 | #229 | 0.63 |
| 1929 | 707 | #225 | 0.63 |
| 1928 | 709 | #234 | 0.61 |
| 1927 | 729 | #240 | 0.61 |
| 1926 | 664 | #256 | 0.56 |
| 1925 | 741 | #242 | 0.61 |
| 1924 | 751 | #243 | 0.60 |
| 1923 | 699 | #246 | 0.58 |
| 1922 | 684 | #250 | 0.57 |
| 1921 | 708 | #250 | 0.57 |
| 1920 | 764 | #235 | 0.64 |
| 1919 | 751 | #226 | 0.66 |
| 1918 | 656 | #251 | 0.57 |
| 1917 | 634 | #246 | 0.59 |
| 1916 | 649 | #244 | 0.62 |
| 1915 | 571 | #247 | 0.58 |
| 1914 | 472 | #245 | 0.62 |
| 1913 | 471 | #219 | 0.75 |
| 1912 | 416 | #221 | 0.75 |
| 1911 | 317 | #224 | 0.76 |
| 1910 | 377 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 1909 | 301 | #193 | 0.87 |
| 1908 | 284 | #196 | 0.85 |
| 1907 | 295 | #185 | 0.93 |
| 1906 | 265 | #187 | 0.90 |
| 1905 | 306 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1904 | 272 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1903 | 260 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1902 | 262 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 1901 | 278 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 1900 | 330 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1899 | 224 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 1898 | 235 | #191 | 0.91 |
| 1897 | 247 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1896 | 223 | #184 | 0.94 |
| 1895 | 220 | #180 | 0.94 |
| 1894 | 246 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1893 | 211 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1892 | 242 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1891 | 204 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1890 | 220 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1889 | 226 | #148 | 1.3 |
| 1888 | 206 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1887 | 155 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1886 | 149 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1885 | 155 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 1884 | 122 | #160 | 0.95 |
| 1883 | 135 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 1882 | 134 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1881 | 113 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 1880 | 96 | #146 | 1.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janie has been given almost only to girls: 276 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Janie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janie, and how old are they?
41,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 54% of the 75,874 Americans ever recorded as Janie. The median Janie alive today is 67 years old; half are between 48 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 39,941 people named Janie (39,806 women and girls, 135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45,457 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,940 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,860 |
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 Janie born?
The states with the most babies named Janie are Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14,323 | #1,076 | 3.3× |
| South Carolina | 5,512 | #831 | 4.3× |
| North Carolina | 4,868 | #938 | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 4,638 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 3,270 | #843 | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 3,039 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 2,938 | #2,012 | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 2,553 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 2,289 | #720 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 2,039 | #1,278 | 1.3× |
Where Janie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janie is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.3 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 Janie 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 614,777 babies since 1880, Janie is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 2,026 babies (8.3%), the third 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 Janie
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 Janie and names like it
- Compare Janie and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJanie peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janie since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Janie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.