girls:
207 births since 1940
#5509 (4th percentile)
boys:
839 births since 1989
#3748 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1940
#6693 (13th percentile)
The name Janiel is the #6,693 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,046 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,748 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 839 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,509 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 207 births since 1940.
Janiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Janiel is available in 53 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023 (32 years for boys and 29 years for girls). 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 Janiel has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Janiel were boys. Interestingly, until around 1997, the name was more popular for girls (85.4% girls from 1940 to 1996), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (97.0% boys from 1997 to 2023).
For boys, Janiel reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #834) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Janiel ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 55.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Janiel reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #790) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janiel".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Janiel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.1% confident that Janiel is pronounced as ja-NEE-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NEE-ehl, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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