Janissa
Janissa was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,900 among girls’ names; 519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janissa?
#15,900 among girls’ names, 2025
Janissa fell from #9,748 in 2015 to #15,900 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
27 babies in 1994, the peak
Janissa peaked in 1994, when 27 girls were given it, #3,932 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,900 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,694 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,546 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,145 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,841 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,565 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,748 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,366 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,537 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,983 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | #8,842 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,447 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,774 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,228 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,214 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,933 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,670 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,439 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,662 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,684 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,257 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,210 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,021 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,226 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,493 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,942 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,097 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,932 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,295 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,574 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,609 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,508 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,183 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,425 | 6.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,362 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,214 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janissa, and how old are they?
An estimated 512 Americans named Janissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 476 people named Janissa (475 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,538 babies since 1880, Janissa is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 135 babies (3.7%), again the fourth 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 Janissa
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 Janissa and names like it
- Compare Janissa and JanessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanissa peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Janissa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janissa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.