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Janne

Girls' name

Yahweh is gracious

Janne has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1951, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Janne, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janne: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh is gracious

Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Latin and Swedish

What Janne means

Janne means “Yahweh is gracious”, associated with Yəhōḥānān.

Origin, language, and formation

Janne is used in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Limburgish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Latin and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanne, Marianne, Johanna, Johan, John, Jane and Jan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Janne is pronounced /ˈjɑnːe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 511 girls were recorded with the name Janne between 1916 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1951; its best national rank was #2,214 in 1951.

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 Janne?

Janne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janne 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janne was born before 1956 — so the typical Janne is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Janne 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1951 (21)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,214
1951

Spellings of Janne

Janne is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 14.8% against Janne's <0.01%.

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.

Janne around the world

Where Janne 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.

  • France
    1908–2024
    #7,514
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #460
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2003–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1944–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Janne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,214
1951
Peak year
1951
21 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
511
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Janne

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

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Sibling names for Janne

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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