girls:
127 births since 1936
#5589 (2nd percentile)
boys:
41 births since 1922
#4545 (1st percentile)
overall:
168 births since 1922
#7571 (2nd percentile)
The name Janus is the #7,571 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 168 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,589 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,545 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 1922.
Janus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Janus is available in 25 out of the 98 years between 1922 and 2019 (17 years for girls and 8 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 Janus has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Janus were girls.
For girls, Janus reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #736) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
For boys, Janus reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #791) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janus".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Janus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.9% confident that Janus is pronounced as JAY-nuhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-nuhs, at 31.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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