Janai
Recorded 1960–2025 · United States
Janai was most popular in 2006, when 118 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,075 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,826, with 47 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,193 people named Janai.
Janai over time
How old is the name Janai?
Janai first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1960, which makes it about 65 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 59 of the 66 years since.
How many people are named Janai?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,193 American births named Janai between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,147 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Janai in 2025?
47 American babies were named Janai in 2025, ranking #5,826 that year.
Is Janai getting more or less popular?
Janai is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 48 births a year, against 72 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -33% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Janai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Janai is a girl’s name — 97.1% of the 3,193 Americans given it were girls and 2.9% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 98% girls and 2% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Janai?
Roughly 3,147 Americans named Janai are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 23 years old, and half are between 14 and 32.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Janai is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org