Janeka

Girls' name

Diminutive of Jane

Janeka has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1991, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Janeka, 2001

1 in 468,000

Janeka over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janeka: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Jane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janeka means

Janeka is a diminutive of Jane.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Janeka is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

Janeka is a diminutive of Jane. Jane has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 249 girls were recorded with the name Janeka between 1974 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,105 in 1979.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Janeka?

Janeka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001: 1 in 468,000; 8 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only: 1 in 225,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 324,236 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Janeka 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 2001 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 324,236 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janeka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janeka was born before 1989 — so the typical Janeka is around 36 today.

Median birth year: 1989; About 36 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 96.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 249; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Janeka 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1991 (20)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,105; 1979

Spellings of Janeka

Janeka is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 46.6% against Janeka's 0.02%.

Janet46.6%556,776
Jane31.8%379,876
Jana3.9%46,185
Anika1.4%16,804
Janna1.3%16,097
Janell1.3%15,733
Janessa1.2%14,722
Tameka1.1%12,731

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 Janeka is used

Across 1910–2025, Janeka was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 687,417 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Tennessee1 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. Janeka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janeka 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: #4,105; 1979
Peak year: 1991; 20 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 2001
All-time count: 249
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Janeka

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

Janova Janila Janaki Janani Janeva Janari Janeeka Janora Janki Janeliz Janeli Janelli Janelys Janaria Janitza Janah Janelis Janaiah Jannely Janika Janaia Janat Janele Janieka

Sibling names for Janeka

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

For a sister

Shaniqua Devan Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy

For a brother

Shay Laron Paris Dejuan Coty Rico Malcom German

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