Janna
Janna was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,203 among girls’ names; 16,097 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,600 Americans named Janna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 34 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janna is “a female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janna?
#2,203 among girls’ names, 2025
Janna rose from #2,224 in 2015 to #2,203 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 47.6 to 52.3 per million.
428 babies in 1979, the peak
Janna peaked in 1979, when 428 girls were given it, #472 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,203 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,128 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,531 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,395 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,543 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,311 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,361 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,315 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,195 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,224 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,565 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,960 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,295 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,646 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 99 | #2,019 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,038 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,145 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,842 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,711 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,558 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 129 | #1,541 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,399 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,355 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 147 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,403 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,223 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 140 | #1,284 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,194 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 169 | #1,092 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 150 | #1,157 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 183 | #1,014 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 165 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 201 | #953 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 227 | #872 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 236 | #832 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 273 | #722 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 297 | #653 | 0.17 |
| 1987 | 341 | #582 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 315 | #611 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 335 | #583 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 357 | #539 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 297 | #598 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 326 | #564 | 0.19 |
| 1981 | 359 | #529 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 366 | #525 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 428 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 349 | #528 | 0.23 |
| 1977 | 365 | #508 | 0.24 |
| 1976 | 308 | #554 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 304 | #557 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 296 | #559 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 337 | #508 | 0.23 |
| 1972 | 247 | #629 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 302 | #580 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 259 | #635 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 250 | #627 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 230 | #639 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 274 | #574 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 261 | #585 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 303 | #545 | 0.17 |
| 1964 | 264 | #620 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 288 | #582 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 303 | #566 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 311 | #564 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 210 | #703 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 194 | #721 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 201 | #696 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 214 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 196 | #684 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 229 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 160 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 172 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 142 | #745 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 128 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 109 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 83 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 120 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 99 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 68 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,160 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,185 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,002 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,444 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,247 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,493 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,072 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,639 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,838 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,424 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,548 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,330 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janna, and how old are they?
14,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 16,097 Americans ever recorded as Janna. The median Janna alive today is 46 years old; half are between 34 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 15,222 people named Janna (15,196 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,578 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 177 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
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 Janna born?
The states with the most babies named Janna are California, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,619 | #2,179 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,610 | #2,118 | 1.3× |
| New York | 613 | #1,732 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 483 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 479 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 472 | #2,005 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 446 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 407 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 394 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 377 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Janna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janna is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1912 it was given 1.8 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 Janna 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 614,777 babies since 1880, Janna is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 2,026 babies (4.1%), the fifth 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 Janna
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 Janna and names like it
- Compare Janna and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJanna peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janna since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Janna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Janna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.