Janiel
Janiel was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,154 among boys’ names; 1,107 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Janiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janiel?
#3,154 among boys’ names, 2025
Janiel fell from #2,502 in 2015 to #3,154 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 22.2 per million.
56 babies in 2013, the peak
Janiel peaked in 2013, when 56 babies were given it (50 boys, #2,477 among boys’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 38 | #3,154 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 23 | #4,484 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 26 | #4,157 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 23 | #4,492 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 29 | #3,771 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 28 | #3,756 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 34 | #3,380 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 38 | #3,071 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 41 | #2,915 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 34 | #3,324 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 50 | #2,502 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 49 | #2,521 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,401 | 50 | #2,477 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 48 | #2,571 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 52 | #2,417 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 44 | #2,756 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 51 | #2,499 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 30 | #3,588 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 23 | #4,285 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,928 | 27 | #3,717 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 23 | #3,981 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 23 | #3,921 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,794 | 15 | #5,135 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 20 | #4,093 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,433 | 13 | #5,490 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 17 | #4,463 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,604 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,129 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,625 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,460 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,631 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,015 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,405 | 7 | #7,137 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,714 | 5 | #8,990 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,035 | 6 | #7,664 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,946 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,063 | 5 | #8,431 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,551 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,987 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,620 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,938 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,483 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,667 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,032 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,921 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,027 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,534 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,460 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,311 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,147 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,117 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,308 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,415 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,659 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,653 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Janiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,107 Americans recorded as Janiel, 19% are girls and 81% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Janiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janiel, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,107 Americans ever recorded as Janiel. The median Janiel alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,212 people named Janiel (352 women and girls, 860 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 128 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 419 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 465 |
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 Janiel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 10 | #1,226 | 1.9× |
Where Janiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janiel is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1940 it was given 4.5 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 boys’ 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 Janiel 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,536 babies since 1880, Janiel is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 44 babies (86%), again the most given.
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 Janiel
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 Janiel and names like it
- Compare Janiel and JanuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaniel peaked in 2013.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janiel since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Janiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Janiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.