Janith
Janith was last recorded in 1968, when 5 babies were given it; 631 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janith by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janith?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,440, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1942, the peak
Janith peaked in 1942, when 36 girls were given it, #1,357 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #7,440 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,318 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,494 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,312 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,039 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,959 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,120 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,967 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,848 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,622 | 6.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 12 | #3,555 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,111 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,535 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,941 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,392 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,860 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,830 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,210 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,302 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,367 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,965 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,597 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,606 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,588 | 20.3 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,763 | 17.2 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,357 | 26.7 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,582 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,563 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,491 | 23.7 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,165 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,246 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,088 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,876 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,740 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,947 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,930 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,099 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,837 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,844 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,950 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,411 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,067 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,427 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,442 | 4.0 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,004 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janith a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janith has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janith: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janith, and how old are they?
An estimated 324 Americans named Janith and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 71 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 446 people named Janith (410 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,985 babies since 1880, Janith is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 32 babies recorded by SSA was a Janith (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Janith
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 Janith and names like it
- Compare Janith and JanethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJanith peaked in 1942.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janith since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Janith.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janith alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.