Janie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Janie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Janie: Recorded since 1977, with a gap of 10 years, its highest recorded position is #518, and it stood at #4,056 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
22times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#518highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Janie's record

Absent from every published list for 10 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1958
1998	#1979
1999	#2444
2000	#2746
2001	#2783
2002	#2868
2003	#2727
2004	#2278
2005	#2682
2006	#1983
2007	#2895
2008	#3005
2010	#3533
2011	#5785
2012	#3681
2013	#3536
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2023	#4056

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 20 of the 28 years from 1996 to 2023.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1977–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1977
First recorded at #518 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1977 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1977–1985
Highest recorded position: #518 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1977 (recorded 1977–1985).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4056 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Janie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 20 ranked years and 131 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1977.

Janie across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Janie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1168 (1996)	#1168 (1996)	#4056 (2023)	20 of 28	131 (1996–2023)	16 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#518 (1977)	#518 (1977)	#519 (1985)	2 of 9	6 (1977–1985)	3 (1977)

Janie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Janie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	38	4 of 10	10
2000sbusiest	61	9 of 10	7
2010s	27	6 of 10	5
2020s	5	1 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Janie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1977 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #518 in Republic of Ireland in 1977.

Janie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1977 and 2023, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #518, first reached in 1977.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 10 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Janice · #22, 73y
Janicke · #166, 40y
Janina · #2781, 19y
Janine · #31, 59y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Andrey · #518, 24y
Christa · #518, 25y
Miracle · #518, 25y
Tola · #518, 17y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Christa · #518, 25y
Hester · #518, 30y
Nathania · #518, 30y
Evita · #522, 24y

Janie was ranked #518 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1977. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Janie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Janie without appearing here.

Janie moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #3985 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Lorraine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #3178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Janie

Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #1411.
Jesse Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3533 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #1489.
Francis Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Cameron Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #4050 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.

Moved the opposite way to Janie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Janie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4056 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1977 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #518 in Republic of Ireland in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Janie

Janie at a glance

What stands out in Janie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Janie across 2 official records

Janie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Janie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Janie at a glance

What stands out in Janie's record

Janie across 2 official records

Janie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Janie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Janie

Janie and the names beside it

Janie moved ahead of

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