Jann
Jann was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,281 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Jann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 62 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jann mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Jann is “a male given name from Dutch [in turn from Latin, in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew] or from West Frisian [in turn from Latin, in turn from Koine Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], variant of Jan, equivalent to English John”
/janː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,092, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
141 babies in 1956, the peak
Jann peaked in 1956, when 141 babies were given it (136 girls, #854 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,092 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,852 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,380 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,780 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,587 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,145 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,064 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,922 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,117 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,644 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 | #6,855 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,225 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,556 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,843 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,106 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,755 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,973 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,180 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,453 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,234 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,031 | 19.5 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,645 | 26.6 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,602 | 26.9 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,846 | 20.8 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,532 | 27.5 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,334 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,201 | 40.6 |
| 1959 | 87 | #1,147 | 43.0 |
| 1958 | 87 | #1,136 | 43.2 |
| 1957 | 105 | #1,021 | 51.3 |
| 1956 | 136 | #854 | 67.7 |
| 1955 | 124 | #872 | 63.4 |
| 1954 | 120 | #873 | 61.8 |
| 1953 | 129 | #812 | 68.6 |
| 1952 | 111 | #874 | 59.9 |
| 1951 | 104 | #885 | 57.8 |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,044 | 44.9 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,241 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,212 | 33.0 |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,322 | 27.1 |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,247 | 30.5 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,674 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,770 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,540 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,005 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,772 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,636 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,989 | 5.5 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,134 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,761 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,494 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,605 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,128 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,281 Americans recorded as Jann, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jann, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 2,281 Americans ever recorded as Jann. The median Jann alive today is 69 years old; half are between 62 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,559 people named Jann (2,241 women and girls, 318 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,917 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jann rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 81 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 316 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 65 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
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 Jann born?
The states with the most babies named Jann are California, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 200 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 60 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 43 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Iowa | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 26 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jann is most over-represented in California: since 1932 it was given 1.1 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 Jann 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 88,588 babies since 1880, Jann is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Jann (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 Jann
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 Jann and names like it
- Compare Jann and JanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJann peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jann since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Jann: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Jann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.