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Janita

#13,914 in 2025Girls' name

God is gracious, through Johanna

Janita has been given to 1,837 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #13,914 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Janita, 2025

1 in 553,000

Janita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janita: meaning, origin, and history

God is gracious, through Johanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janita means

Janita belongs to the name family reached through Janita → Johanna. Its meaning is “God is gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Janita is used in Faroese and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna and Jani.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Janita is pronounced /ˈjɑnitɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,837 girls were recorded with the name Janita between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,484 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,144 in 2020 to #13,914 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,178 in 2015 to #13,914 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 Janita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,914
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janita 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janita was born before 1976 — so the typical Janita is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,590
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Choose a decade

1980s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (356).

Is Janita 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
−2,370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,230
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,736
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.5%
Peak was 1963 (57)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,484
1963

Spellings of Janita

Janita is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 26.9% against Janita'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 Janita is used

Across 1910–2025, Janita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 620,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Janita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janita around the world

Where Janita 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
    1997–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Norway
    1880–2001
    #565
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1999–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1945–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Janita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,914
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,230
Best rank ever
#1,484
1963
Peak year
1963
57 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,837
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Janita

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

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Sibling names for Janita

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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