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Janan

Girls' name

Heart

Janan has been given to 655 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Janan, 2023

1 in 663,000

Janan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janan: meaning, origin, and history

Heart

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janan means

Janan means “heart”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Janan is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒa.ˈnaːn/ for Janan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 645 girls were recorded with the name Janan between 1938 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1958; its best national rank was #2,455 in 1949.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Janan between 1989 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,427 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Janan?

Janan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janan 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 2023 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janan was born before 1968 — so the typical Janan is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
564
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1950s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Janan 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (20)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,455
1949

Spellings of Janan

Janan is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 15.7% against Janan's 0.02%.

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 Janan is used

Across 1910–2025, Janan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,768,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Janan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janan around the world

Where Janan 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1963–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Janan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,455
1949
Peak year
1958
20 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
645
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,427
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Janan

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

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Sibling names for Janan

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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