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Janella

#9,116 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Janelle

Janella has been given to 1,968 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #9,116 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Janella, 2025

1 in 301,000

Janella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janella: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Janelle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janella means

Janella is a variant of Janelle.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janelle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,968 girls were recorded with the name Janella between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,616 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,722 in 2020 to #9,116 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,362 in 2015 to #9,116 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 Janella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,116
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janella 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janella was born before 1978 — so the typical Janella is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,711
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Choose a decade

1970s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (410).

Is Janella 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
−2,054
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,394
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,754
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.0%
Peak was 1971 (58)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,616
1971

Spellings of Janella

Janella is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 24.9% against Janella's 0.86%.

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 Janella is used

Across 1910–2025, Janella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 328,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 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. Janella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janella around the world

Where Janella 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
    2016–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2019
    #7,120
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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.

Janella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,116
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,394
Best rank ever
#1,616
1971
Peak year
1971
58 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,968
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Janella

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

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Sibling names for Janella

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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