girls:
15.7k births since 1914
#1212 (79th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1979
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.7k births since 1914
#2082 (73rd percentile)
The name Janell is the #2,082 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,701 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 73.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,212 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 15,678 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1979.
Janell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Janell is available in 109 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 4 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 Janell has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janell reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 45.1% percentile (ranked #432) with 241 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 241 births per million (ranked 45.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janell ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janell reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #710) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% 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 "Janell".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Janell is pronounced as juh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables.
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