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Janae

The girl's name Janae has been in the national records since 1939, with 18,058 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,684th. About 18,000 Janaes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Janae boys named Janae

By the numbers

Total US births
18,058
Estimated living today
18,000
Median age today
26
Peak year
2000
Best rank
471st
Rank in 2025
1,684th
First recorded
1939
Girls / boys
18,052 / 6

How old the living Janaes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 18,058 babies given the name since 1939, about 18,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 160 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

20th-century coinage from Jane, possibly influenced by Renée.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Janae is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Janae is most concentrated in Utah (4.2×), the District of Columbia (2.6×), Maryland (2.0×), Florida (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular girls’ names the year Janae peaked:

All the names of 2000

Janae elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Janae +1 spelling 313 899th
France girls Janaé +2 spellings 90 3,896th
Switzerland girls Janaé 7 1,559th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Janae: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
French girls Switzerland Janaé 7 0.002% 670th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

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Janae against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.