Janine
Janine was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,804 among girls’ names; 33,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,300 Americans named Janine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 46 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janine is “a female given name from French.”
From French Janine and Jeannine under influence from Jane, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
/d͡ʒəˈniːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janine?
#5,804 among girls’ names, 2025
Janine fell from #3,273 in 2015 to #5,804 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 13.1 per million.
1,380 babies in 1960, the peak
Janine peaked in 1960, when 1,380 girls were given it, #231 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,804 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,027 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,046 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,380 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,443 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,225 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,965 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,024 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,945 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,736 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,273 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,828 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,423 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,948 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,289 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,541 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,836 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,963 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,626 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,109 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,096 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,861 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,932 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,874 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,766 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,678 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,434 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 138 | #1,274 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 171 | #1,080 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 178 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 193 | #960 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 250 | #802 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 288 | #735 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 283 | #735 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 337 | #659 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 328 | #639 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 366 | #565 | 0.21 |
| 1987 | 345 | #575 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 376 | #541 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 426 | #484 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 507 | #422 | 0.30 |
| 1983 | 541 | #401 | 0.32 |
| 1982 | 560 | #411 | 0.33 |
| 1981 | 496 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1980 | 507 | #427 | 0.31 |
| 1979 | 524 | #410 | 0.33 |
| 1978 | 484 | #417 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 480 | #422 | 0.31 |
| 1976 | 495 | #408 | 0.34 |
| 1975 | 491 | #410 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 541 | #385 | 0.37 |
| 1973 | 584 | #365 | 0.40 |
| 1972 | 594 | #367 | 0.39 |
| 1971 | 830 | #321 | 0.50 |
| 1970 | 1,044 | #282 | 0.60 |
| 1969 | 893 | #303 | 0.53 |
| 1968 | 882 | #295 | 0.54 |
| 1967 | 1,056 | #259 | 0.64 |
| 1966 | 1,238 | #238 | 0.73 |
| 1965 | 1,357 | #232 | 0.77 |
| 1964 | 1,240 | #251 | 0.65 |
| 1963 | 1,135 | #261 | 0.59 |
| 1962 | 1,289 | #246 | 0.66 |
| 1961 | 1,288 | #242 | 0.64 |
| 1960 | 1,380 | #231 | 0.68 |
| 1959 | 774 | #340 | 0.38 |
| 1958 | 459 | #445 | 0.23 |
| 1957 | 581 | #377 | 0.28 |
| 1956 | 578 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1955 | 745 | #314 | 0.38 |
| 1954 | 813 | #297 | 0.42 |
| 1953 | 694 | #311 | 0.37 |
| 1952 | 564 | #345 | 0.30 |
| 1951 | 421 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 327 | #445 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 258 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 277 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1947 | 293 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 188 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 93 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 64 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 56 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 45 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 55 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 58 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,480 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,465 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,038 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,066 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,589 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,026 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janine has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 105 years of records.
Girls and boys named Janine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janine, and how old are they?
29,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 33,519 Americans ever recorded as Janine. The median Janine alive today is 58 years old; half are between 46 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 31,970 people named Janine (31,933 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 30,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 273 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 422 |
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 Janine born?
The states with the most babies named Janine are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6,190 | #2,230 | 2.3× |
| California | 4,858 | #2,612 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,702 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 2,008 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 1,689 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,521 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 1,388 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 1,305 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 725 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 718 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Janine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janine is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 2.3 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 Janine 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 579,663 babies since 1880, Janine is the third most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 1,943 babies (1.1%), the seventh 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 Janine
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 Janine and names like it
- Compare Janine and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJanine peaked in 1960.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Janine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Janine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.