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Janya

#6,959 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Janya has been given to 2,374 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #6,959 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Janya, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janya means

Janya is a given name.

The naming story behind Janya

Wikidata records Janya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133266441, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,374 girls were recorded with the name Janya between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,010 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,683 in 2020 to #6,959 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,879 in 2015 to #6,959 in 2025.

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.

How common is Janya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,959
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janya 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janya was born before 2006 — so the typical Janya is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
68.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 68.2% of all recorded uses (1,620).

Is Janya 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
+2,237
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,276
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,080
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 2004 (234)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,010
2004

Spellings of Janya

Janya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 20.9% against Janya'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 Janya is used

Across 1910–2025, Janya was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 81,058 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 33,333
  5. 5Alabama1 in 50,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Janya around the world

Where Janya 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2014
    #4,684
    in 2014
  • France
    2023–2023
    #6,299
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Janya in other languages

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

JanaJanyJayaJanayaJanayna

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

Janya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,959
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,276
Best rank ever
#1,010
2004
Peak year
2004
234 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,374
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Janya

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

JaneaJaniaJanaiJaneeJaneyJanylaJannahJanelyJaniseJanayJaninaJanitaJaniJanettJannatJanayaDonyaJaniahJannySanyaJanethJanyahJanellyJanney

Names with a curve like Janya

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

JaedynKarymeCitlalyGraceyAdamarisMakiahMakiyaShamyaSanjanaMakylaKarimeAiden

Sibling names for Janya

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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