Janina
Janina was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,117 among girls’ names; 2,929 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Janina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 29 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janina mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Janina is “a female given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage, equivalent to English Jane”
From Polish Janina and possibly other Slavic languages as well.
/ˈjɑninɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janina?
#9,117 among girls’ names, 2025
Janina fell from #7,099 in 2015 to #9,117 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 6.8 per million.
77 babies in 1980, the peak
Janina peaked in 1980, when 77 girls were given it, #1,534 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,117 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,384 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,515 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,082 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,514 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,224 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,847 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,321 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,030 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,106 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,099 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,697 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,933 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,329 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,242 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,045 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,977 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,020 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,736 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,398 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,011 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,639 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,710 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,019 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,363 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,763 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,367 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,672 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,480 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,361 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,851 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,728 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,422 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,585 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,358 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,263 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,101 | 32.0 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,160 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,075 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,280 | 26.2 |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,086 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,352 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,738 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,675 | 40.2 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,793 | 37.2 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,534 | 46.4 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,820 | 36.8 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,135 | 28.7 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,392 | 24.1 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,802 | 35.5 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,479 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,148 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,195 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,416 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,626 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,214 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,849 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,101 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,860 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,426 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,043 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,817 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,034 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,763 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,322 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,164 | 14.3 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,800 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,798 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,554 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,123 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,579 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,810 | 17.0 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,199 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,536 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,212 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,600 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,067 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,642 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,569 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,111 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,522 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,142 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,973 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,295 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,166 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,071 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,988 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,645 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,593 | 6.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,515 | 5.0 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,274 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,523 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,948 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,161 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,795 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,866 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,595 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,315 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,256 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,452 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,778 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,500 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,623 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,226 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,120 | 38.3 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,211 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,464 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,432 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,185 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,861 | 19.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janina, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 2,929 Americans ever recorded as Janina. The median Janina alive today is 42 years old; half are between 29 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 5,970 people named Janina (5,960 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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 | 39 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 326 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 601 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 776 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 393 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 222 |
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 Janina born?
The states with the most babies named Janina are California, New York and Illinois, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 378 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 203 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 144 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 41 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Janina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janina is most over-represented in California: since 1911 it was given 1.2 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 Janina 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 204,726 babies since 1880, Janina is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 953 babies (1.2%), again the eighth 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 Janina
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 Janina and names like it
- Compare Janina and JanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJanina peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janina since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Janina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.