Janek

boys:

29 births since 2009

#4557 (1st percentile)

overall:

29 births since 2009

#7710 (0th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Janek is the #7,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,557 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 2009.

Janek first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (first recorded for boys in 2009). Birth data for Janek is available in 5 out of the 14 years between 2009 and 2022. 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 boys, Janek reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #922) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janek".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
29
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
2009
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#922
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Janek

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Janek. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 31.1% confident that Janek is pronounced as YAH-nehk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NEHK, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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YAH-nehk (2 syllables)
31.1% confidence
Y AA1 N EH0 K
juh-NEHK (2 syllables)
22.2% confidence
JH AH0 N EH1 K
YA-nehk (2 syllables)
Verified
20.0% confidence
Y AE1 N EH0 K
JA-nehk (2 syllables)
8.9% confidence
JH AE1 N EH0 K
JAH-nehk (2 syllables)
6.7% confidence
JH AA1 N EH0 K
JA-nihk (2 syllables)
6.7% confidence
JH AE1 N IH0 K
yah-nehk (2 syllables)
4.4% confidence
Y AA0 N EH0 K

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like Y AA1 N EH0 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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