girls:
33.5k births since 1914
#759 (87th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1966
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
33.5k births since 1914
#1378 (82nd percentile)
The name Janine is the #1,378 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,477 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 82.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #759 (86.7% percentile) for all time with 33,466 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1966.
Janine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Janine is available in 103 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 2 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 Janine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janine reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 71.2% percentile (ranked #223) with 664 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 743 births per million (ranked 70.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Janine ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janine reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #634) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janine".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Janine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Janine is pronounced as juh-NEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-neen, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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