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Janaiya

About 565 American babies have been named Janaiya since 1998, most of them around 2007. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 560 Janaiyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Janaiya

By the numbers

Total US births
565
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
18
Peak year
2007
Best rank
3,168th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1998

How old the living Janaiyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 565 babies given the name since 1998, about 560 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Janaiya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Janaiya is most concentrated in New York (3.2×).

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

Names of 2007

The most popular girls’ names the year Janaiya peaked:

All the names of 2007

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Janaiya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.