girls:
54.5k births since 1911
#545 (90th percentile)
boys:
22.3k births since 1902
#767 (83rd percentile)
overall:
76.8k births since 1902
#821 (89th percentile)
The name Jan is the #821 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,813 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #545 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 54,529 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #767 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,284 births since 1902.
Jan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Jan is available in 117 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 107 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jan has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Jan were girls.
For girls, Jan reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 82.1% percentile (ranked #130) with 1,503 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 1,554 births per million (ranked 82.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Jan reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 60.8% percentile (ranked #239) with 383 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 392 births per million (ranked 57.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jan ranks #847 for boys (7.0% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.8% confident that Jan is pronounced as jan, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yahn, at 15.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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