girls:
48.8k births since 1909
#585 (90th percentile)
boys:
174 births since 1928
#4412 (4th percentile)
overall:
49k births since 1909
#1091 (86th percentile)
The name Janis is the #1,091 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48,993 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 85.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #585 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 48,819 births since 1909. For boys, it ranks #4,412 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 174 births since 1928.
Janis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for girls and 1928 for boys).
The name Janis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 64.7% of babies named Janis were girls.
For girls, Janis reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 84.5% percentile (ranked #107) with 1,763 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 1,763 births per million (ranked 84.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janis ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janis reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #590) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Janis ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 50.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janis".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Janis", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Janice" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Janice..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Janis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.5% confident that Janis is pronounced as JA-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NIHS, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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