Janit
Janit was last recorded in 1970, when 5 babies were given it; 104 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janit by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janit?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,489, in 1970; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1950, the peak
Janit peaked in 1950, when 10 girls were given it, #3,527 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #8,489 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,434 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,471 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,477 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,556 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,915 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,425 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,945 | 4.9 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,527 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,923 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 8 | #3,504 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,974 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,556 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,167 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,540 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janit a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janit has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janit: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janit, and how old are they?
An estimated 72 Americans named Janit and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Janit (182 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Janit rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 565,871 babies since 1880, Janit is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 154 babies recorded by SSA was a Janit (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Janit and names like it
- Compare Janit and JanetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJanit peaked in 1950.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Janit.
- Names starting with JMost given first.