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Jannie

#9,734 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Johanna

Jannie has been given to 14,857 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,734 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 281 recorded.

Babies named Jannie, 2025

1 in 332,000

Jannie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jannie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Johanna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jannie means

Jannie is a diminutive of Johanna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jannie → Johanna. The family’s meaning is “God is gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements Yôḥānāh.

Origin, language, and formation

Jannie is used in Afrikaans, Danish and Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Johanna, Jan, Johan and Janne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,829 girls were recorded with the name Jannie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 281 in 1924; its best national rank was #322 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,192 in 2020 to #9,734 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,599 in 2015 to #9,734 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Jannie between 1915 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #3,340 in 1938.

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 Jannie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,734
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jannie 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jannie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jannies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jannie was born before 1936 — so the typical Jannie is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,230
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1940s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (2,540).

Is Jannie 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
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,865
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.6%
Peak was 1924 (281)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#322
1910

Spellings of Jannie

Jannie is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 10.5% against Jannie's 0.38%.

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 Jannie is used

Across 1910–2025, Jannie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 763 girls, against 1 in 11,435 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

0131 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 763
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 1,887
  3. 3Alabama1 in 2,632
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,704
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 4,348
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 5,882
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 7,692
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 7,692

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. Jannie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jannie around the world

Where Jannie 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
    1921–1960
    #1,937
    in 1960
  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,752
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #598
    in 1958

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

Notable people named Jannie

People whose public names include Jannie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jannie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jannie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Janny

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jannie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,734
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 542
Best rank ever
#322
1910
Peak year
1924
281 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,829
Count in 2025
10

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,340
1938
Peak year
1928
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1938
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jannie

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

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Names with a curve like Jannie

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

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Sibling names for Jannie

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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