girls:
2.3k births since 1968
#3571 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1968
#5467 (29th percentile)
The name Janya is the #5,467 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,347 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 29.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,571 (37.5% percentile) for all time with 2,347 births since 1968.
Janya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Janya is available in 33 out of the 56 years between 1968 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, Janya reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #709) with 116 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 116 births per million (ranked 24.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janya ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 8.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janya".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Janya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Janya is pronounced as JAH-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-nyuh, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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