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Jannike

Girls' name

English equivalent of Jane

Jannike has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jannike, 1989

1 in 640,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jannike: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Jane

Low German

What Jannike means

Jannike is a English equivalent of Jane.

Origin, language, and formation

Jannike is used in Norwegian. Its origins include Low German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jane and Janne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Jannike between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #11,381 in 1989.

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 Jannike?

Jannike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 640,000
6 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 307,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
443,877 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jannike 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 1989 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 443,877 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jannike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jannikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jannike was born before 1989 — so the typical Jannike is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Jannike 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (6)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,381
1989

Spellings of Jannike

Jannike is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 32.9% against Jannike'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.

Jannike around the world

Where Jannike 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #562
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Jannike 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
—
Best rank ever
#11,381
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jannike

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

JanvikaJanitraJanieraJanittaJandellJaneiyaJanadiaJanalizJanairaJanayjaJaneiahJaniyanJanihyaJanilyaJaneilyJanneanJaneighJannitaJanithaJanethaJanalleJanderyJanetraJanekia

Sibling names for Jannike

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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