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Janina

#9,117 in 2025Girls' name

Latinate form of Jeannine

Janina has been given to 2,929 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #9,117 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Janina, 2025

1 in 301,000

Janina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janina: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Jeannine

Slavic languages

What Janina means

Janina is a latinate form of Jeannine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Janina → Jeannine → Jean. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Origin, language, and formation

Janina is used in Finnish, German, Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Janina comes through Polish Janina.

Janina is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeannine, Jane, Jana and Juana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Janina is pronounced /ˈjɑninɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,929 girls were recorded with the name Janina between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1980; its best national rank was #1,120 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,224 in 2020 to #9,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,099 in 2015 to #9,117 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 Janina?

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
#9,117
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janina 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 Janina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janina was born before 1980 — so the typical Janina is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,421
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (571).

Is Janina 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
−1,733
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,893
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,018
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1980 (77)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,120
1916

Spellings of Janina

Janina is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 29.4% against Janina's 0.09%.

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 Janina is used

Across 1910–2025, Janina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 89,998 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 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. Janina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janina around the world

Where Janina 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
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #765
    in 2020
  • France
    1920–2021
    #7,321
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,222
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Janina

People whose public names include Janina, 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.

Janina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Janina. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanitaYaninaJanilla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Janina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,893
Best rank ever
#1,120
1916
Peak year
1980
77 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,929
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Janina

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

JannahJanettJanylaJanayaJanelyJaniseJaniahJanitaJanethJannatJaniaJanaiJanieceJaneeJanellyJanyahJanyaJanneyJanuaryJaneaJanellaJaneyJanikaJaniya

Names with a curve like Janina

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

RosanaSamuelDominicaMartineRosauraJoseJuanRachellJonelleJeniseJenellSean

Sibling names for Janina

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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