Jannis
Jannis was last recorded in 2009, when 8 babies were given it; 410 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jannis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,949, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1947, the peak
Jannis peaked in 1947, when 25 girls were given it, #1,966 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #12,949 | 4.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,411 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,553 | 2.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,921 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,233 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,976 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,685 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,235 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,039 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,519 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 17 | #3,031 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,435 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,051 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,205 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,113 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,901 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,074 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,354 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,861 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,424 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,139 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,369 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,540 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,966 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,661 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,243 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,026 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,623 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,894 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,379 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,835 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,273 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,816 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,135 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,964 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,296 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,517 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jannis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannis, and how old are they?
An estimated 277 Americans named Jannis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 66 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 510 people named Jannis (475 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
How common is the spelling Jannis?
Jannis is a less common spelling of Janis: SSA has recorded 410 Jannis and 49,015 Janis since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 49,593 babies since 1880, Jannis is the second most given (<1% of them).
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 Jannis
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 Jannis and names like it
- Compare Jannis and JanisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJannis peaked in 1947.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jannis since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Jannis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jannis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.