Jannah
Jannah was given to 140 girls in 2025, #1,520 among girls’ names; 2,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Jannah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jannah?
#1,520 among girls’ names, 2025
Jannah rose from #2,116 in 2015 to #1,520 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 51.0 to 87.1 per million.
143 babies in 2024, the peak
Jannah peaked in 2024, when 143 girls were given it, #1,515 among girls’ names. The 140 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 140 | #1,520 | 87.1 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,515 | 88.3 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,715 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,074 | 56.7 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,319 | 48.1 |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,088 | 54.4 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,854 | 64.9 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,122 | 52.9 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,061 | 55.0 |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,120 | 51.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #2,116 | 51.0 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,844 | 61.6 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,244 | 47.3 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,412 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,520 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,918 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,656 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,729 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,550 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,468 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,765 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,038 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,812 | 30.1 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,908 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,107 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,107 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,267 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,516 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,167 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,665 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,920 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,049 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,025 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,920 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,056 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,423 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,161 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,424 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,988 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,813 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,189 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,663 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,395 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,749 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,377 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,817 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,703 | 9.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,134 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,540 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,377 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,175 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,490 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jannah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannah, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,558 Americans ever recorded as Jannah. The median Jannah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,730 people named Jannah (1,729 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 273 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 874 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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 Jannah born?
The states with the most babies named Jannah are Illinois, California and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 17 | #584 | 1.3× |
| California | 14 | #1,616 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,847 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #889 | 2.0× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #741 | 2.3× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #519 | 1.0× |
| New York | 8 | #1,582 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,006 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,263 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,562 | 0.4× |
Where Jannah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jannah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 2.3 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 Jannah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jannah?
Jannah is a less common spelling of Jana: SSA has recorded 2,558 Jannah and 46,223 Jana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 122,600 babies since 1880, Jannah is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 140 of their 942 babies (15%), the third 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 Jannah
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 Jannah and names like it
- Compare Jannah and JanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJannah peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jannah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jannah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jannah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.