Jiannah
Jiannah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,746 among girls’ names; 78 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jiannah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jiannah?
#9,746 among girls’ names, 2025
Jiannah rose from #17,669 in 2015 to #9,746 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.2 per million.
10 babies in 2020, the peak
Jiannah peaked in 2020, when 10 girls were given it, #9,856 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,746 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,349 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,686 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,358 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,256 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,856 | 6.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,019 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,669 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,473 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,065 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,106 | 3.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,660 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jiannah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jiannah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jiannah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jiannah, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Jiannah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
How common is the spelling Jiannah?
Jiannah is a less common spelling of Jianna: SSA has recorded 78 Jiannah and 4,306 Jianna since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,943 babies since 1880, Jiannah is the fourth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 325 babies (3.1%), 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 Jiannah
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 Jiannah and names like it
- Compare Jiannah and JiannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJiannah peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Jiannah.
- Names starting with JMost given first.