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Janiya

About 11,109 American babies have been named Janiya since 1990, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 1,962nd. About 11,000 Janiyas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Janiya boys named Janiya

By the numbers

Total US births
11,109
Estimated living today
11,000
Median age today
17
Peak year
2008
Best rank
362nd
Rank in 2025
1,962nd
First recorded
1990
Girls / boys
11,103 / 6

How old the living Janiyas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 11,109 babies given the name since 1990, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 5,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 Janiya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Janiya is most concentrated in Georgia (3.4×), Mississippi (3.3×), Florida (3.0×), South Carolina (2.8×).

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

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Janiya peaked:

All the names of 2008

Janiya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Janiya 30 4,096th

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.

Related names

Janiya 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.