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Janaya

#2,628 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Janaya has been given to 3,965 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,628 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Janaya, 2025

1 in 50,200

Janaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janaya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janaya means

Janaya is a given name.

The naming story behind Janaya

Wikidata records Janaya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669152, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,965 girls were recorded with the name Janaya between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,168 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,570 in 2020 to #2,628 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,572 in 2015 to #2,628 in 2025.

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 Janaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,628
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janaya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janaya was born before 2005 — so the typical Janaya is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,965
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (1,724).

Is Janaya 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
+322
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+942
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−56
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2006 (198)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,168
2002

Spellings of Janaya

Janaya is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 22.3% against Janaya's 0.76%.

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 Janaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Janaya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 31,367 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 11,111
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 50,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Janaya around the world

Where Janaya 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
    2002–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,648
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2010
    #521
    in 2010

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.

Notable people named Janaya

People whose public names include Janaya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Janaya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Janaya. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanyaJanayna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Janaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,628
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 942
Best rank ever
#1,168
2002
Peak year
2006
198 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,965
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Janaya

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

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Names with a curve like Janaya

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

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Sibling names for Janaya

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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