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Jania

#6,002 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jania has been given to 3,021 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #6,002 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Jania, 2025

1 in 166,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jania: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jania means

Jania is a given name.

The naming story behind Jania

Wikidata records Jania as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q136527270, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,021 girls were recorded with the name Jania between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,186 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,162 in 2020 to #6,002 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,440 in 2015 to #6,002 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 Jania?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,002
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jania 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janias were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,021
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Choose a decade

2000s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (1,570).

Is Jania 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
−2,331
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,840
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,562
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 2005 (194)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,186
2005

Spellings of Jania

Jania is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 13.4% against Jania's 0.04%.

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 Jania is used

Across 2016–2025, Jania was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 55,001 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 25,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 25,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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.

Jania around the world

Where Jania 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
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    1925–1927
    #1,251
    in 1927
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Jania by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,002
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,840
Best rank ever
#1,186
2005
Peak year
2005
194 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,021
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Jania

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

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Names with a curve like Jania

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

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Sibling names for Jania

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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