Janki
Janki was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,917 among girls’ names; 265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janki?
#13,917 among girls’ names, 2025
Janki entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,917 in 2025.
29 babies in 1995, the peak
Janki peaked in 1995, when 29 girls were given it, #3,699 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,917 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,189 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,618 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,466 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,929 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,300 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,761 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,097 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,668 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,053 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 14 | #6,981 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,219 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,185 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,623 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,699 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,291 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,071 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,807 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,061 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,250 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,064 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,703 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janki has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janki, and how old are they?
An estimated 261 Americans named Janki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 25 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 824 people named Janki (810 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,013 babies since 1880, Janki is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 20 babies (30%), again the third 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 Janki
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 Janki and names like it
- Compare Janki and JanikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanki peaked in 1995.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janki since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Janki.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Janki alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.