girls:
2.1k births since 1951
#3708 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1951
#5639 (27th percentile)
The name January is the #5,639 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,149 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 27.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,708 (35.1% percentile) for all time with 2,149 births since 1951.
January first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (first recorded for girls in 1951). Birth data for January is available in 66 out of the 73 years between 1951 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, January reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 32.5% percentile (ranked #511) with 156 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 156 births per million (ranked 32.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, January ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "January".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name January. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that January is pronounced as JA-nyue-EH-ree, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-nyue-eh-ree, at 42.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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