first name
JANAE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,882 people named Janae, 49.4% reported their origin as Black, 31% as White and 10.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Janae peaked in 2000, when 589 babies got the name.
At least 18,058 babies have been given the name since 1939. 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.
Janae by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #944. The largest share of babies named Janae, 41%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Janae is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Janae has been most common in Utah (4.2×), District of Columbia (2.6×), and Maryland (2×), and least common in Kentucky (0.15×).
15,132 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Janae, most common first.
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