Janenne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Janenne has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1960, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Janenne, 1974
1 in 608,000
Janenne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Janenne?
Janenne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1974
- 1 in 608,000
- 5 of 3,039,803 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1974
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,407 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Janenne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1974 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janenne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Janennes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Janenne was born before 1960 — so the typical Janenne is around 65 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Janenne 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 1960 (7)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Janenne
Janenne is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 35.3% against Janenne's <0.01%.
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.
Janenne around the world
Where Janenne 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 Australia1944–1974#683in 1974
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Janenne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Janenne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Janenne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.