first name
JANIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 39,941 people named Janie, 60.2% reported their origin as White, 18.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 15.3% as Black. 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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Janie peaked in 1947, when 1,853 babies got the name.
At least 75,874 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.
Janie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #243. The largest share of babies named Janie, 34.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Janie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Janie has been most common in South Carolina (5.8×), Mississippi (3.1×), and Texas (2.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.06×).
64,469 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 Janie, most common first.
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