How rare is the name Janel?

11,109 people in the United States have the first name Janel, about 1 in 27,188. It ranks #2,311 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JANEL

#2,311

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,109
About
1 in 27,188
This common or more
79.3%
Who bears it

Of the 11,109 people named Janel, 62.8% reported their origin as White, 16.3% as Black and 13.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Janel peaked in 1971, when 429 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19332025
Peak year
1971
Births that year
429
In 2025*
8 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,055 babies have been given the name since 1933. 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.

Janel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #920. The largest share of babies named Janel, 41.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#5,30580
1940s#3,034244
1950s#1,763913
1960s#1,3981,576
1970s#9203,676
1980s#1,2192,645
1990s#1,8821,718
2000s#4,079750
2010s#7,239347
2020s#11,180106
Silent Generation 1928–451.2%
Baby boom 1946–6414.1%
Generation X 1965–8041.8%
Millennials 1981–9630%
Generation Z 1997–1210.1%
2013 and later2.8%

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 Janel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Janel has been most common in North Dakota (4.8×), Minnesota (3×), and Hawaii (2.9×), and least common in North Carolina (0.29×).

8,590 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 Janel

#2,309 Yazmin · 11,117#2,310 Paulo · 11,111#2,312 Arjun · 11,098#2,313 Krystle · 11,089

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,105 Janell · 12,755#2,727 Jamel · 8,587#8,871 Janely · 1,606#10,819 Janiel · 1,212#18,260 Jannel · 592#23,902 Janeal · 407#24,534 Janeil · 392#25,184 Janeli · 378

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