Janiya Girl
How popular is Janiya?
#1,962 girl name in 2025
98 baby girls were named Janiya in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
Janiya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,962 for girls (▼ 191 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 98 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-64% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #997 in 2015, #1,668 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2008 (914 girls) |
| Highest rank | #362 in 2008 |
| First recorded | 1990 |
| 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 |
Janiya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Janiyah family of names ranked #613 for girls in 2025 (#628 the year before), with 455 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Janiyah | 346 | 76% |
| Janiya | 98 | 22% |
| Janyiah | 5 | 1% |
| Jahniyah | 6 | 1% |
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 Janiya is most popular
Babies named Janiya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.2 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Georgia: 0.2 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (33 girls)
Janiya by decade
Girl names about as popular as Janiya
Questions
- Is Janiya a boy or girl name?
- Janiya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janiya were girls.
- How popular is the name Janiya?
- 98 baby girls were named Janiya in the US in 2025, making it the 1962nd most popular girl name.
- When was Janiya most popular?
- Janiya peaked in 2008, when 914 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #362 in 2008.
- How many people are named Janiya?
- 11,109 babies have been named Janiya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 11,020 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 18.
- Where is Janiya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janiya 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.