girls:
3k births since 1960
#3169 (45th percentile)
boys:
88 births since 1997
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1960
#4892 (37th percentile)
The name Janai is the #4,892 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,088 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 36.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,169 (44.5% percentile) for all time with 3,000 births since 1960. For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 1997.
Janai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 1997 for boys). Birth data for Janai is available in 57 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (57 years for girls and 13 years for boys). 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 Janai has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janai reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #858) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 54 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janai ranks #906 for girls (4.3% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 48.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janai reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janai".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Janai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Janai is pronounced as juh-NAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NAI, at 45.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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