How popular is the name Janay?

Janay ranks 1,917th among girls' names in US records, with 5,889 births since 1952. Over the past decade it accounts for 312.

Is Janay a unisex name?

No. Janay is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1987, when 596 children were given the name. It has been in use for 73 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Yanay, Janeigh, Yahne. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,917 of girl names

Pronounced Y AA1 N EY1 (ARPABET)

Janay is a girls' name, and first appears in 1952. It has been given to 5,889 children — the 1,917th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 312 births across the past decade, against a peak of 596 in a single year. That peak was in 1987.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Yanay, Janeigh and Yahne — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Janay and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Janay?: Janay ranks 1,917th among girls' names in US records, with 5,889 births since 1952. Over the past decade it accounts for 312.
Is Janay a unisex name?: No. Janay is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Janay most popular?: 1987, when 596 children were given the name. It has been in use for 73 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Janay spelled?: Yanay, Janeigh, Yahne. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.