Janeil
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Janeil has been given to 239 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 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Janeil, 2004
1 in 764,000
Janeil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Janeil over time
In 2010, Janeil went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Janeil?
Janeil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 764,000
- 5 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 367,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 529,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Janeil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janeil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Janeils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Janeil was born before 1978 — so the typical Janeil is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 24.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 198
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Janeil 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1958 (13)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.1% average annual change
Spellings of Janeil
Janeil is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 45.3% against Janeil'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 Janeil is used
Across 1910–2025, Janeil was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 254,101 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 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. Janeil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Janeil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Janeil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Janeil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.