Janya
Janya was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,959 among girls’ names; 2,374 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Janya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janya?
#6,959 among girls’ names, 2025
Janya fell from #3,879 in 2015 to #6,959 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 10.0 per million.
234 babies in 2004, the peak
Janya peaked in 2004, when 234 girls were given it, #1,010 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,959 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,196 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,516 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,534 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,810 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,683 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,360 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,608 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,237 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,737 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,879 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,452 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,058 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,642 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,229 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,662 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,624 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 195 | #1,264 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,228 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,176 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,010 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,275 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 131 | #1,458 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,835 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,951 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,014 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,022 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,294 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,856 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,617 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,442 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janya, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,374 Americans ever recorded as Janya. The median Janya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,860 people named Janya (1,858 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 357 |
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 Janya born?
The states with the most babies named Janya are Georgia, Florida and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 220 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Florida | 173 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 131 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 95 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 94 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 91 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 86 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 72 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 67 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Janya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1968 it was given 2.7 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 Janya 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 Janya?
Janya is a less common spelling of Janiyah: SSA has recorded 2,374 Janya and 13,605 Janiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 564,349 babies since 1880, Janya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 2,395 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Janya
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 Janya and names like it
- Compare Janya and JaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanya peaked in 2004.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janya since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Janya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.