Janna Girl
How popular is Janna?
#2,194 girl name in 2025
84 baby girls were named Janna in the US in 2025, making it the 2194th most popular girl name.
Janna popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,194 for girls (▼ 76 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 84 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-1% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,209 in 2015, #2,302 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1979 (428 girls) |
| Highest rank | #469 in 1979 |
| First recorded | 1912 |
| 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 |
Janna counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jana family of names ranked #594 for girls in 2025 (#587 the year before), with 471 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jana | 181 | 38% |
| Jannah | 140 | 30% |
| Janna | 84 | 18% |
| Janai | 41 | 9% |
| Janay | 15 | 3% |
| Janah | 5 | 1% |
| Jahna | 5 | 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 Janna is most popular
Babies named Janna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.0 per 1,000 (7 girls)
Janna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #2,632 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,586 |
| 1930s | 162 | #1,424 |
| 1940s | 639 | #784 |
| 1950s | 1,745 | #612 |
| 1960s | 2,694 | #544 |
| 1970s | 3,195 | #469 |
| 1980s | 3,266 | #525 |
| 1990s | 1,778 | #831 |
| 2000s | 1,256 | #1,303 |
| 2010s | 836 | #1,953 |
| 2020s | 467 | #2,118 |
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Questions
- Is Janna a boy or girl name?
- Janna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Janna were girls.
- How popular is the name Janna?
- 84 baby girls were named Janna in the US in 2025, making it the 2194th most popular girl name.
- When was Janna most popular?
- Janna peaked in 1979, when 428 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #469 in 1979.
- How many people are named Janna?
- 16,097 babies have been named Janna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 14,784 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 46.
- Where is Janna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Janna was most common in New York, 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.