Janet Girl
How popular is Janet?
#2,778 girl name in 2025
61 baby girls were named Janet in the US in 2025, making it the 2778th most popular girl name.
Janet popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,778 for girls (▼ 344 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 61 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-61% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,477 in 2015, #2,005 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1954 (18,477 girls) |
| Highest rank | #16 in 1938 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Janet counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Janet family of names ranked #1,641 for girls in 2025 (#1,423 the year before), with 93 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Janet is most popular
Babies named Janet per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (81 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- Indiana: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Janet by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 461 | #270 |
| 1890s | 898 | #267 |
| 1900s | 1,541 | #226 |
| 1910s | 10,713 | #126 |
| 1920s | 23,973 | #82 |
| 1930s | 76,038 | #16 |
| 1940s | 130,755 | #18 |
| 1950s | 167,520 | #18 |
| 1960s | 89,315 | #32 |
| 1970s | 24,454 | #96 |
| 1980s | 13,520 | #172 |
| 1990s | 9,660 | #223 |
| 2000s | 5,501 | #412 |
| 2010s | 1,906 | #889 |
| 2020s | 521 | #1,918 |
Girl names about as popular as Janet
Questions
- Is Janet a boy or girl name?
- Janet is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janet were girls.
- How popular is the name Janet?
- 61 baby girls were named Janet in the US in 2025, making it the 2778th most popular girl name.
- When was Janet most popular?
- Janet peaked in 1954, when 18,477 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #16 in 1938.
- How many people are named Janet?
- 558,291 babies have been named Janet in the US since 1880. We estimate about 372,174 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 70.
- Where is Janet most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janet was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.