Janissa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Janissa

The Social Security Administration has registered 514 babies named Janissa between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janissa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Janissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Janissa in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janissa 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 514 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.