Janise
Janise was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,328 among girls’ names; 2,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Janise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 30 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janise?
#11,328 among girls’ names, 2025
Janise fell from #8,175 in 2015 to #11,328 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.0 per million.
54 babies in 1953, the peak
Janise peaked in 1953, when 54 girls were given it, #1,319 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,328 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,203 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,157 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,212 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,840 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,088 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,688 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,175 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,675 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,935 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 22 | #5,989 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,841 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,481 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,731 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,666 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,780 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,727 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,959 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,645 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,308 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,545 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,052 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,455 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,012 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,901 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,432 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,258 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,291 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,319 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,527 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,839 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,651 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,577 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,377 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,660 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,454 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,423 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,033 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,875 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,088 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,976 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,908 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,089 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,817 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,679 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,957 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,448 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,831 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,309 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,529 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,478 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,627 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,736 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,471 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,271 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,455 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,118 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,628 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,499 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,385 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,002 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,852 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,905 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,655 | 21.7 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,773 | 18.9 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,710 | 19.6 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,494 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,374 | 27.1 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,852 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,319 | 28.7 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,490 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,213 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,660 | 18.7 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,899 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,974 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,234 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,262 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,512 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,487 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,333 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,740 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,653 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,009 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,498 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,594 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,528 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,492 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,609 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,516 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janise, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 2,084 Americans ever recorded as Janise. The median Janise alive today is 44 years old; half are between 30 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,886 people named Janise (1,878 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,881 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 38 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 514 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 484 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 362 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 95 |
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 Janise born?
The states with the most babies named Janise are California, New York and Michigan, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Janise with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Janise?
Janise is a less common spelling of Janice: SSA has recorded 2,084 Janise and 407,605 Janice since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 412,165 babies since 1880, Janise is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 83 babies (9.6%), again the second 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 Janise
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 Janise and names like it
- Compare Janise and JaniceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJanise peaked in 1953.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janise since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Janise.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janise alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.