Janae Girl
How popular is Janae?
#1,684 girl name in 2025
122 baby girls were named Janae in the US in 2025, making it the 1684th most popular girl name.
Janae popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,684 for girls (▼ 278 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 122 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-55% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,003 in 2015, #1,236 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2000 (589 girls) |
| Highest rank | #464 in 1994 |
| First recorded | 1939 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Janae counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Janae family of names ranked #1,303 for girls in 2025 (#1,138 the year before), with 134 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Janae | 122 | 91% |
| Jahnae | 12 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Janae is most popular
Babies named Janae per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (52 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (71 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (116 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.1 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (25 girls)
Janae by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1940s | 14 | #3,881 |
| 1950s | 157 | #2,167 |
| 1960s | 372 | #1,609 |
| 1970s | 1,116 | #732 |
| 1980s | 2,841 | #489 |
| 1990s | 5,019 | #464 |
| 2000s | 4,675 | #471 |
| 2010s | 2,876 | #700 |
| 2020s | 976 | #1,236 |
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Questions
- Is Janae a boy or girl name?
- Janae is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janae were girls.
- How popular is the name Janae?
- 122 baby girls were named Janae in the US in 2025, making it the 1684th most popular girl name.
- When was Janae most popular?
- Janae peaked in 2000, when 589 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #464 in 1994.
- How many people are named Janae?
- 18,058 babies have been named Janae in the US since 1880. We estimate about 17,709 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 27.
- Where is Janae most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janae was most common in Georgia, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.