Janila — #14210 US girls' name
199 babies named Janila in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 20% of names given to girls today.
48% of everyone ever named Janila was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Janila in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Janila
The Social Security Administration has registered 199 babies named Janila between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janila currently holds the #14210 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Janila performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Janila shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Janila in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Janila 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 199 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.
Janila at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Janila popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2005)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #14210 among girls.
199 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 18 births in a single year.
Janila by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 95 births that decade — 48% of Janila's all-time total
Janila decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Janila's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Janila by state
Where Janila concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 2.5% |
5 of 199 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.