Janiya
Janiya was given to 98 girls in 2025, #1,967 among girls’ names; 11,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,000 Americans named Janiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janiya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janiya is “a female given name of Hebrew origin.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janiya?
#1,967 among girls’ names, 2025
Janiya fell from #998 in 2015 to #1,967 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
914 babies in 2008, the peak
Janiya peaked in 2008, when 914 girls were given it, #362 among girls’ names. The 98 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,967 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,774 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,552 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,700 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 142 | #1,495 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 123 | #1,671 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 157 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 186 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 237 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 270 | #998 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 323 | #853 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 348 | #781 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 425 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 539 | #538 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 687 | #448 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 833 | #385 | 0.45 |
| 2008 | 914 | #362 | 0.48 |
| 2007 | 889 | #366 | 0.46 |
| 2006 | 838 | #386 | 0.44 |
| 2005 | 845 | #370 | 0.46 |
| 2004 | 843 | #371 | 0.46 |
| 2003 | 506 | #548 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 433 | #598 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 339 | #721 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 222 | #954 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,382 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,818 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,743 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,979 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,394 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,117 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,722 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,205 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,851 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janiya has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Janiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janiya, and how old are they?
11,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,109 Americans ever recorded as Janiya. The median Janiya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 7,935 people named Janiya (7,913 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 82 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,430 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Janiya born?
The states with the most babies named Janiya are Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,279 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 10 | #941 | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,195 | 2.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,923 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,129 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,522 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,495 | 0.7× |
Where Janiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janiya is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1990 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Janiya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 207,303 babies since 1880, Janiya is the sixth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 98 of their 957 babies (10%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Janiya
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 Janiya and names like it
- Compare Janiya and JanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaniya peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janiya since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Janiya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Janiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.