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Jianna

#973 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jianna has been given to 4,306 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #973 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 371 recorded.

Babies named Jianna, 2025

1 in 12,700

Jianna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jianna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jianna means

Jianna is a given name.

The naming story behind Jianna

Wikidata records Jianna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669177, 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, 4,306 girls were recorded with the name Jianna between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 371 in 2021; its best national rank was #769 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #851 in 2020 to #973 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,773 in 2015 to #973 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 Jianna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,700
262 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,130
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#973
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,772 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jianna 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,772 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jianna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jiannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jianna was born before 2017 — so the typical Jianna is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,306
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (1,788).

Is Jianna 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
+24
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−122
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+800
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2021 (371)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#769
2021

Spellings of Jianna

Jianna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 24.6% against Jianna's 0.12%.

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 Jianna is used

Across 2016–2025, Jianna was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 6,651 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 4,000
  2. 2California1 in 4,545
  3. 3Texas1 in 4,545
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,882
  5. 5New York1 in 5,882
  6. 6Illinois1 in 6,250
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 6,667
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 6,667

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.

Jianna around the world

Where Jianna 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
    2008–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #913
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jianna in other languages

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

Janna

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

Jianna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#973
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 122
Best rank ever
#769
2021
Peak year
2021
371 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,306
Count in 2025
262

Names similar to Jianna

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

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Names with a curve like Jianna

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

AvaniTaytumSolLeilanyArayaTallulahKeziahSoleilNyomiMaisyKeilaniAyah

Sibling names for Jianna

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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