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Janiyah

#783 in 2025Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Janiyah has been given to 13,605 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #783 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 994 recorded.

Babies named Janiyah, 2025

1 in 9,580

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janiyah: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janiyah means

Janiyah is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Janiyah is used in English.

Janiyah is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,605 girls were recorded with the name Janiyah between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 994 in 2009; its best national rank was #334 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #722 in 2020 to #783 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #538 in 2015 to #783 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 Janiyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,580
346 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,650
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#783
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janiyah 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,642 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janiyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janiyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Janiyah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,605
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (6,112).

Is Janiyah 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
+102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−61
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−245
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.8%
Peak was 2009 (994)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#334
2009

Spellings of Janiyah

Janiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 20.8% against Janiyah's 2.6%.

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 Janiyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Janiyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 862 girls, against 1 in 3,458 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 33,333).

3116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 862
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,515
  3. 3Georgia1 in 1,786
  4. 4Alabama1 in 1,852
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,923
  6. 6Florida1 in 2,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 2,381
  8. 8Maryland1 in 2,500

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.

Geographically, Janiyah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 78% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Janiyah around the world

Where Janiyah 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
    2008–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #4,465
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Janiyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#783
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 61
Best rank ever
#334
2009
Peak year
2009
994 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,605
Count in 2025
346

Names similar to Janiyah

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

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Names with a curve like Janiyah

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

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Sibling names for Janiyah

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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