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Janeth

#4,398 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Janet

Janeth has been given to 4,792 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #4,398 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 175 recorded.

Babies named Janeth, 2025

1 in 104,000

Janeth over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janeth: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Janet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janeth means

Janeth is a variant of Janet.

Origin, language, and formation

Janeth is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janet.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Janeth is pronounced /xaˈned/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,792 girls were recorded with the name Janeth between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 175 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,199 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,359 in 2020 to #4,398 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,144 in 2015 to #4,398 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Janeth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,398
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janeth 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janeths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janeth was born before 2001 — so the typical Janeth is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,280
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (1,513).

Is Janeth 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
−1,694
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,039
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,254
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.3%
Peak was 2003 (175)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,199
2002

Spellings of Janeth

Janeth is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 52.4% against Janeth's 0.45%.

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 Janeth is used

Across 1910–2025, Janeth was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 27,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 11,111
  3. 3Texas1 in 14,286
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Nevada1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 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. Janeth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janeth around the world

Where Janeth 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 Australia
    1944–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Janeth

People whose public names include Janeth, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Janeth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,039
Best rank ever
#1,199
2002
Peak year
2003
175 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,792
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Janeth

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

JaniahJanayaJanettJaninaJannahJannethJanylaJaneyJanelyJaniseJaniyaJanayJanitaJannieJaneeJanieceJannatJanaiJanellJaniaJanellyJanyahJanyaJanney

Names with a curve like Janeth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Janeth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JaciMarlenJamiaJaciePriscilaAnisaVianeyKalliNataliImanKameronMadelyne

Sibling names for Janeth

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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