How Many People Are Named Janna?

14,673

people named Janna are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 23,293 people in the US has this name

Based on 16,097 babies named Janna in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,941

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,052

See the top 100

Peak Year

1979

428 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, English
Pronunciation: YAHN-nah (Dutch, Finnish), JAN-ə (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Feminine form of JAN (1). As an English name, it is an elaboration of JAN (2).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Janna in English. Counting Janna and these spellings together, about 17,205 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Janna in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Janna alive today is about 44 years old, and 56% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 58 in 2025.

Under 30 3,145
21.4%
30 to 59 8,232
56.1%
60 and over 3,296
22.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Janna first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1979, to 428 babies. In 2025, 84 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Janna has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #472, in 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,203.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,203
Best rank#472 (1979)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#605 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Janna alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Janna were born in California than in any other state: about 1,500 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Janna was given 2.9 times as often in Oklahoma, 2 times in Utah and 1.9 times in Washington.

California 1,500
Texas 1,467
New York 587
Georgia 456
Illinois 451
Florida 449
Michigan 410
Ohio 380
Pennsylvania 356
Oklahoma 342
Washington 340
Indiana 339
North Carolina 314
Minnesota 305
Alabama 275
Tennessee 274
Missouri 268
Louisiana 209
Iowa 199
Utah 178
Kentucky 160
Wisconsin 157
Colorado 157
Kansas 142
Arkansas 126
Oregon 117
Mississippi 111
New Jersey 104
Massachusetts 99
South Carolina 96
Virginia 88
Arizona 73
North Dakota 36
New Mexico 35
West Virginia 26
Hawaii 24
Idaho 23
Maryland 21
Montana 19
Maine 15
District of Columbia 6
Nebraska 6
Connecticut 5

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