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Janae

#1,687 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Jane

Janae has been given to 18,058 babies in the U.S. since 1939. In 2025 it ranked #1,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 589 recorded.

Babies named Janae, 2025

1 in 27,200

Janae over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janae: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jane

coinages

What Janae means

Janae is a form of Jane.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Janae is a form of Jane. Jane has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

20th-century coinage from Jane, possibly influenced by Renée.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Janae (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Janae is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Janae is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18,052 girls were recorded with the name Janae between 1939 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 589 in 2000; its best national rank was #464 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,239 in 2020 to #1,687 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,003 in 2015 to #1,687 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Janae between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,364 in 1989.

How common is Janae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,200
122 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,687
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,836 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janae was born before 1999 — so the typical Janae is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
18,032
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (5,019).

Is Janae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−278
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−448
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−684
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.7%
Peak was 2000 (589)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#464
1994

Spellings of Janae

Janae is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 14.6% against Janae's 0.47%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Janae is used

Across 2016–2025, Janae was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 8,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 4,167
  2. 2Florida1 in 5,263
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 5,263
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 6,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 6,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 7,143
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  8. 8Indiana1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Janae around the world

Where Janae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #6,605
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1980–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Janae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 448
Best rank ever
#464
1994
Peak year
2000
589 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18,052
Count in 2025
122

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,364
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Janae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Janae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Janae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Janae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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