Jannie
Jannie was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,734 among girls’ names; 14,857 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,560 Americans named Jannie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 59 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jannie mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Jannie is “a diminutive of the female given name Johanna”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jannie?
#9,734 among girls’ names, 2025
Jannie rose from #13,599 in 2015 to #9,734 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.2 per million.
281 babies in 1924, the peak
Jannie peaked in 1924, when 281 girls were given it, #415 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,734 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,548 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,192 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,842 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,679 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,493 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,242 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,599 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,477 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,538 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 17 | #7,264 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,586 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,055 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,483 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,194 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,223 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,932 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,012 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,924 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,200 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,135 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,858 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,499 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,994 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,884 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,589 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,909 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,430 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,249 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,458 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,775 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,661 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,781 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,532 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,761 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,806 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,690 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,789 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,286 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,554 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,590 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,116 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,330 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,922 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,991 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,733 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,983 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,790 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,470 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,635 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,215 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,217 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 105 | #1,020 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 105 | #1,062 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 97 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 105 | #1,068 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 137 | #899 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 137 | #888 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 146 | #846 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 178 | #744 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 190 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 220 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 218 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 205 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 229 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 241 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1950 | 253 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1949 | 264 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 258 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1947 | 266 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1946 | 246 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1945 | 241 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 265 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1943 | 257 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 261 | #460 | 0.19 |
| 1941 | 239 | #443 | 0.20 |
| 1940 | 243 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1939 | 216 | #453 | 0.20 |
| 1938 | 203 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1937 | 200 | #462 | 0.19 |
| 1936 | 176 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1935 | 203 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1934 | 234 | #429 | 0.22 |
| 1933 | 228 | #427 | 0.23 |
| 1932 | 231 | #434 | 0.22 |
| 1931 | 193 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1930 | 219 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 233 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1928 | 233 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1927 | 256 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1926 | 271 | #414 | 0.23 |
| 1925 | 240 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1924 | 281 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1923 | 244 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 237 | #436 | 0.20 |
| 1921 | 235 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1920 | 248 | #426 | 0.21 |
| 1919 | 237 | #422 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | 230 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1917 | 220 | #431 | 0.20 |
| 1916 | 213 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1915 | 216 | #406 | 0.22 |
| 1914 | 156 | #436 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 139 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1912 | 123 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1911 | 119 | #371 | 0.28 |
| 1910 | 142 | #322 | 0.36 |
| 1909 | 112 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1908 | 89 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1907 | 113 | #326 | 0.35 |
| 1906 | 76 | #394 | 0.26 |
| 1905 | 100 | #341 | 0.34 |
| 1904 | 77 | #374 | 0.28 |
| 1903 | 68 | #385 | 0.26 |
| 1902 | 83 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1901 | 56 | #393 | 0.23 |
| 1900 | 105 | #331 | 0.35 |
| 1899 | 54 | #392 | 0.23 |
| 1898 | 78 | #353 | 0.30 |
| 1897 | 67 | #356 | 0.29 |
| 1896 | 56 | #379 | 0.24 |
| 1895 | 59 | #369 | 0.25 |
| 1894 | 60 | #361 | 0.27 |
| 1893 | 44 | #406 | 0.21 |
| 1892 | 48 | #385 | 0.23 |
| 1891 | 28 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 53 | #352 | 0.28 |
| 1889 | 34 | #418 | 0.19 |
| 1888 | 44 | #363 | 0.25 |
| 1887 | 24 | #462 | 0.16 |
| 1886 | 41 | #335 | 0.28 |
| 1885 | 24 | #435 | 0.18 |
| 1884 | 23 | #421 | 0.18 |
| 1883 | 18 | #456 | 0.16 |
| 1882 | 19 | #422 | 0.18 |
| 1881 | 9 | #603 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 21 | #357 | 0.23 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannie has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jannie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannie, and how old are they?
5,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 37% of the 14,857 Americans ever recorded as Jannie. The median Jannie alive today is 72 years old; half are between 59 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 4,900 people named Jannie (4,876 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,711 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,240 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,690 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 766 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 455 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 285 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 97 |
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 Jannie born?
The states with the most babies named Jannie are South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 3,089 | not ranked | 11.7× |
| Georgia | 1,212 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 1,128 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| North Carolina | 1,092 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Mississippi | 1,084 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Texas | 702 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 443 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 397 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 364 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 325 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jannie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jannie is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 11.7 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 Jannie 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 572,099 babies since 1880, Jannie is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,845 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Jannie
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 Jannie and names like it
- Compare Jannie and JaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJannie peaked in 1924.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jannie since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Jannie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Jannie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jannie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.