Janiyah
Janiyah was given to 346 girls in 2025, #783 among girls’ names; 13,605 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,500 Americans named Janiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janiyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janiyah is “a female given name.”
Modern American coinage.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janiyah?
#783 among girls’ names, 2025
Janiyah fell from #538 in 2015 to #783 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.33 to 0.22 per 1,000.
994 babies in 2009, the peak
Janiyah peaked in 2009, when 994 girls were given it, #334 among girls’ names. The 346 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 346 | #783 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 305 | #885 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 309 | #868 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 311 | #897 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 381 | #747 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 385 | #722 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 423 | #687 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 449 | #657 | 0.26 |
| 2017 | 503 | #600 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 552 | #564 | 0.31 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 582 | #538 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 539 | #569 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 645 | #476 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 714 | #438 | 0.41 |
| 2011 | 791 | #400 | 0.45 |
| 2010 | 914 | #352 | 0.51 |
| 2009 | 994 | #334 | 0.54 |
| 2008 | 929 | #355 | 0.49 |
| 2007 | 758 | #432 | 0.39 |
| 2006 | 686 | #462 | 0.36 |
| 2005 | 639 | #479 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 501 | #570 | 0.27 |
| 2003 | 355 | #722 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 201 | #1,061 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 149 | #1,296 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,853 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,233 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,678 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,288 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,728 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janiyah, and how old are they?
13,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,605 Americans ever recorded as Janiyah. The median Janiyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 8,426 people named Janiyah (8,400 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 33 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,690 |
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 Janiyah born?
The states with the most babies named Janiyah are Florida, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 43 | #437 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 35 | #847 | 0.8× |
| New York | 23 | #716 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 21 | #538 | 2.3× |
| California | 18 | #1,336 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 15 | #654 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #409 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 13 | #587 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #806 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 12 | #656 | 0.9× |
Where Janiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janiyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1995 it was given 3.0 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 Janiyah 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 44,159 babies since 1880, Janiyah is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 346 of their 738 babies (47%), again the 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 Janiyah
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 Janiyah and names like it
- Compare Janiyah and JaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaniyah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Janiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.