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Janene

Janene reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 684, and has been recorded 3,545 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 3,000 Janenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Janene

By the numbers

Total US births
3,545
Estimated living today
3,000
Median age today
57
Peak year
1970
Best rank
684th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1929

How old the living Janenes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,545 babies given the name since 1929, about 3,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 10 of them are children and 910 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 Janene is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Janene is most concentrated in Utah (8.3×), California (3.2×), Iowa (2.4×), Washington (2.2×).

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

Names of 1970

The most popular girls’ names the year Janene peaked:

All the names of 1970

Related names

Janene 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.