girls:
5.8k births since 1952
#2185 (62nd percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1952
#3565 (54th percentile)
The name Janay is the #3,565 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,801 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 53.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,185 (61.8% percentile) for all time with 5,801 births since 1952.
Janay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (first recorded for girls in 1952). Birth data for Janay is available in 64 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Janay reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 55.8% percentile (ranked #355) with 318 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 318 births per million (ranked 55.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janay ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janay".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Janay is pronounced as juh-NAY, which has 2 syllables.
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