Janyah
Janyah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,067 among girls’ names; 1,165 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Janyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janyah?
#8,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Janyah fell from #4,643 in 2015 to #8,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 8.1 per million.
94 babies in 2009, the peak
Janyah peaked in 2009, when 94 girls were given it, #2,139 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,067 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,755 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,801 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,747 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,811 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,155 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,593 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,538 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,575 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,522 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,643 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,392 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,338 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,115 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,570 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,622 | 38.8 |
| 2009 | 94 | #2,139 | 51.2 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,167 | 49.2 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,189 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,170 | 46.8 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,321 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,429 | 38.1 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,508 | 35.6 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,029 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,330 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,048 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,427 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,115 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,187 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janyah, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,165 Americans ever recorded as Janyah. The median Janyah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 854 people named Janyah (850 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,077 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 875 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 279 |
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).
How common is the spelling Janyah?
Janyah is a less common spelling of Janiyah: SSA has recorded 1,165 Janyah and 13,605 Janiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 116,687 babies since 1880, Janyah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 900 babies (1.4%), 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 Janyah
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 Janyah and names like it
- Compare Janyah and JaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJanyah peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Janyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Janyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.