Janiylah
#13,916 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Janiylah has been given to 239 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #13,916 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Janiylah, 2025
1 in 553,000
Janiylah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Janiylah?
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
- #13,916
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Janiylah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janiylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Janiylahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Janiylah was born before 2016 — so the typical Janiylah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 66.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 239
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 66.1% of all recorded uses (158).
Is Janiylah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −6,193
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,795
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.29×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.3%
- Peak was 2014 (22)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Janiylah
Janiylah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 22.5% against Janiylah's 0.17%.
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 Janiylah is used
Across 1910–2025, Janiylah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 741,078 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 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. Janiylah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Janiylah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Janiylah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Janiylah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.