Janiel — #4487 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Janiel

The Social Security Administration has registered 862 babies named Janiel between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Janiel currently holds the #4487 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Janiel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 207 additional births since 1940.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janiel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 440 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Janiel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Massachusetts, which accounts for 107 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Janiel in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janiel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 862 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.