Janiyah Girl
How popular is Janiyah?
#783 girl name in 2025
346 baby girls were named Janiyah in the US in 2025, making it the 783rd most popular girl name.
Janiyah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #783 for girls (▲ 101 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 346 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-41% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #538 in 2015, #722 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2009 (994 girls) |
| Highest rank | #333 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1995 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Janiyah 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 Janiyah is most popular
Babies named Janiyah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 1.2 per 1,000 (55 girls)
- Georgia: 0.5 per 1,000 (109 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.5 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Alabama: 0.5 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Janiyah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Janiyah
Questions
- Is Janiyah a boy or girl name?
- Janiyah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janiyah were girls.
- How popular is the name Janiyah?
- 346 baby girls were named Janiyah in the US in 2025, making it the 783rd most popular girl name.
- When was Janiyah most popular?
- Janiyah peaked in 2009, when 994 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #333 in 2009.
- How many people are named Janiyah?
- 13,605 babies have been named Janiyah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 13,514 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Janiyah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janiyah was most common in Mississippi, at 1.2 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.