Jani
Jani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196071 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1943
- 1,729people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,645 girls have been named Jani in the United States since 1943, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 71 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 84 boys have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.
By decade
In 1960, its biggest year
Jani was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Jani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Megpeak 1959
- Lezliepeak 1962
- Valeriepeak 1959
- Risapeak 1962
- Melodiepeak 1956
- Karlapeak 1964
- Maripeak 1957
- Valeripeak 1964
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.