How rare is the name Jannie?

4,900 people in the United States have the first name Jannie, about 1 in 61,639. It ranks #3,973 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JANNIE

#3,973

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,900
About
1 in 61,639
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,900 people named Jannie, 51.4% reported their origin as Black, 30.6% as White and 7.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jannie peaked in 1924, when 281 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1924
Births that year
281
In 2025*
10 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,857 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.

Jannie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #556. The largest share of babies named Jannie, 30.9%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#735257
1890s#604547
1900s#556879
1910s#7571,800
1920s#7942,495
1930s#8262,109
1940s#8612,540
1950s#1,1632,017
1960s#1,910901
1970s#3,301421
1980s#4,446337
1990s#7,312231
2000s#10,726184
2010s#15,783110
2020s#23,42329
Before 19016.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.9%
Silent Generation 1928–4527.5%
Baby boom 1946–6424.1%
Generation X 1965–805.6%
Millennials 1981–963.2%
Generation Z 1997–121.9%
2013 and later0.7%

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 Jannie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jannie has been most common in South Carolina (20×), Mississippi (8×), and Alabama (5.7×), and least common in New York (0.07×).

10,593 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.

Exactly as common as Jannie

1 other first name also has 4,900 people.

#3,973 Debi · 4,900

Either side of Jannie

#3,972 Lizabeth · 4,901#3,973 Debi · 4,900#3,975 Twyla · 4,896#3,976 Jayna · 4,895

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,051 Janie · 39,941#12,529 Jaynie · 991#12,922 Janne · 947#35,980 Jannae · 222#37,148 Janni · 211#46,015 Jannia · 146

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