Janie Girl
How popular is Janie?
#1,326 girl name in 2025
168 baby girls were named Janie in the US in 2025, making it the 1326th most popular girl name.
Janie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,326 for girls (▲ 210 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 168 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-1% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,388 in 2015, #1,781 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1947 (1,845 girls) |
| Highest rank | #133 in 1882 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Janie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Janie family of names ranked #815 for girls in 2025 (#857 the year before), with 293 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Janie | 168 | 57% |
| Janney | 23 | 8% |
| Janey | 44 | 15% |
| Jaynie | 8 | 3% |
| Jani | 14 | 5% |
| Jaynee | 6 | 2% |
| Jannie | 10 | 3% |
| Jahni | 6 | 2% |
| Janny | 8 | 3% |
| Janee | 6 | 2% |
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 Janie is most popular
Babies named Janie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Janie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,491 | #133 |
| 1890s | 2,272 | #159 |
| 1900s | 2,853 | #163 |
| 1910s | 5,314 | #181 |
| 1920s | 7,156 | #225 |
| 1930s | 7,328 | #216 |
| 1940s | 13,119 | #158 |
| 1950s | 14,615 | #164 |
| 1960s | 7,532 | #274 |
| 1970s | 3,810 | #435 |
| 1980s | 3,079 | #550 |
| 1990s | 2,637 | #666 |
| 2000s | 2,062 | #945 |
| 2010s | 1,494 | #1,388 |
| 2020s | 836 | #1,326 |
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Questions
- Is Janie a boy or girl name?
- Janie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janie were girls.
- How popular is the name Janie?
- 168 baby girls were named Janie in the US in 2025, making it the 1326th most popular girl name.
- When was Janie most popular?
- Janie peaked in 1947, when 1,845 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #133 in 1882.
- How many people are named Janie?
- 75,874 babies have been named Janie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 42,726 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 68.
- Where is Janie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janie was most common in Louisiana, at 0.2 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.