Janee
#13,911 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Janee has been given to 3,262 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #13,911 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 162 recorded.
Babies named Janee, 2025
1 in 553,000
Janee over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Janee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,911
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Janee sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Janees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Janee was born before 1989 — so the typical Janee is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,222
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (1,064).
Is Janee 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,206
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,734
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.50×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.7%
- Peak was 1989 (162)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.7% average annual change
Spellings of Janee
Janee is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 15.2% against Janee's 0.09%.
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 Janee is used
Across 1910–2025, Janee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 87,443 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 50,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 50,000
- 3Florida1 in 50,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 5Maryland1 in 50,000
- 6New York1 in 50,000
- 7Georgia1 in 100,000
- 8Illinois1 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. Janee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Janee around the world
Where Janee 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.
- South Australia1950–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Janee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Janee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Janee
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Janee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Janee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.