How popular is the name Janine?

Janine ranks 495th among girls' names in US records, with 57,543 births since 1914. Over the past decade it accounts for 497.

Is Janine a unisex name?

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

1960, when 2,237 children were given the name. It has been in use for 111 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Jeanine. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#495 of girl names

Pronounced JH AH0 N IY1 N (ARPABET)

Janine is a girls' name, and first appears in 1914. It has been given to 57,543 children — the 495th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 497 births across the past decade, against a peak of 2,237 in a single year. That peak was in 1960.

Jeanine is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

1960Girls: 2,237Boys: 0

These spellings sound identical to Janine 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 Janine?: Janine ranks 495th among girls' names in US records, with 57,543 births since 1914. Over the past decade it accounts for 497.
Is Janine a unisex name?: No. Janine is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Janine most popular?: 1960, when 2,237 children were given the name. It has been in use for 111 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Janine spelled?: Jeanine. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.