How rare is the name Janay?

4,939 people in the United States have the first name Janay, about 1 in 61,152. It ranks #3,949 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JANAY

#3,949

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,939
About
1 in 61,152
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,939 people named Janay, 69.5% reported their origin as Black, 13.1% as White and 10.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Janay peaked in 1987, when 596 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19522025
Peak year
1987
Births that year
596
In 2025*
15 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,832 babies have been given the name since 1952. 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.

Janay by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,646. The largest share of babies named Janay, 54.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#10,93119
1960s#7,82269
1970s#4,194291
1980s#1,6531,596
1990s#1,6462,101
2000s#3,1961,061
2010s#5,017591
2020s#11,317104
Baby boom 1946–640.9%
Generation X 1965–806%
Millennials 1981–9654.9%
Generation Z 1997–1231.4%
2013 and later6.7%

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 Janay is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Janay has been most common in District of Columbia (6×), Florida (3.3×), and Maryland (2.8×), and least common in Indiana (0.41×).

3,984 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 Janay

#3,946 Shara · 4,941#3,948 Wilhelmina · 4,940#3,950 Fisher · 4,938#3,951 Kraig · 4,937

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Janay, most common first.

#999 Jana · 43,056#1,906 Janae · 14,882#4,313 Janey · 4,394#5,737 Janaya · 2,917#6,380 Janai · 2,524#10,042 Janny · 1,348#13,698 Jany · 876#14,649 Janaye · 801

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