first name
JANA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 43,056 people named Jana, 86.3% reported their origin as White, 4% as Black and 3.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jana peaked in 1961, when 1,456 babies got the name.
At least 46,223 babies have been given the name since 1921. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jana by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #480. The largest share of babies named Jana, 33.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jana is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jana has been most common in Utah (3.1×), Oklahoma (3.1×), and Idaho (2.9×), and least common in Connecticut (0.23×).
42,590 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jana
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jana, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jana ranks #38,716 of 156,621, with 615 people. See Jana as a last name
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