Janeva

#15,899 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Janeva has been given to 395 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #15,899 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Janeva, 2025

1 in 663,000

Janeva over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,899
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janeva 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janeva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janeva was born before 2005 — so the typical Janeva is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
361
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Janeva 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
−5,276
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,282
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,669
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.3%
Peak was 2021 (16)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,139
1916

Spellings of Janeva

Janeva is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 44.4% against Janeva's 0.03%.

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.

Janeva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,899
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,282
Best rank ever
#4,139
1916
Peak year
2021
16 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
395
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Janeva

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Sibling names for Janeva

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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