girls:
377.3k births since 1880
#94 (98th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1907
#3470 (24th percentile)
overall:
378.4k births since 1880
#188 (98th percentile)
The name Jane is the #188 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 378,427 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #94 (98.4% percentile) for all time with 377,294 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,470 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,133 births since 1907.
Jane has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1907 for boys).
The name Jane has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jane reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 94.9% percentile (ranked #36) with 5,469 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 5,675 births per million (ranked 94.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jane ranks #267 for girls (71.9% percentile) with 633 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jane reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #554) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jane".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jane is pronounced as jayn, which has 1 syllables.
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