Janisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Janisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 948 babies named Janisha between 1972 and 2022, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 58 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 397 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Janisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 51 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Janisha in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janisha 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 948 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.