Janney
#5,471 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Janney has been given to 1,029 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #5,471 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 224 recorded.
Babies named Janney, 2025
1 in 144,000
Janney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Janney?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,471
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Janney 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Janneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Janney was born before 2016 — so the typical Janney is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 64.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,024
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 64.9% of all recorded uses (668).
Is Janney 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
- −1,552
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,264
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,279
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.44×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.3%
- Peak was 2013 (224)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 103.6% average annual change
Spellings of Janney
Janney is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 27.1% against Janney's 0.05%.
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 Janney is used
Across 1910–2025, Janney was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 90,649 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 5Nevada1 in 100,000
- 6Colorado1 in —
- 7Georgia1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Janney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Janney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Janney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Janney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.