girls:
1.8k births since 1915
#3964 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1915
#5932 (23rd percentile)
The name Janita is the #5,932 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,823 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 23.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,964 (30.6% percentile) for all time with 1,823 births since 1915.
Janita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Janita is available in 93 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Janita reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #720) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janita ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janita".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Janita is pronounced as juh-NEE-tuh, which has 3 syllables.
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