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Janaye

Janaye is a girl's name that peaked in 1990, when it was the 2,492nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 940 Janayes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Janaye

By the numbers

Total US births
955
Estimated living today
940
Median age today
28
Peak year
1990
Best rank
2,492nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1976

How old the living Janayes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 955 babies given the name since 1976, about 940 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Janaye is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Janaye is most concentrated in California (6.1×), New York (2.1×).

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

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Janaye peaked:

All the names of 1990

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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.