girls:
75.3k births since 1880
#448 (92nd percentile)
boys:
276 births since 1914
#4310 (6th percentile)
overall:
75.6k births since 1880
#829 (89th percentile)
The name Janie is the #829 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,566 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #448 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 75,290 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,310 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 276 births since 1914.
Janie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys).
The name Janie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janie reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 76.8% percentile (ranked #160) with 1,015 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 1,194 births per million (ranked 52.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Janie ranks #814 for girls (14.1% percentile) with 79 births per million, which is 6.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janie reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #507) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Janie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.9% confident that Janie is pronounced as JAY-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NEE, at 8.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 JH EY1 N IY0) 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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