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.

2registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
49years from first to last
#518highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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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
2025	#4867

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 21 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1977–2025 · 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 recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4867 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Janie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 21 ranked years and 135 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)	#4867 (2025)	21 of 30	135 (1996–2025)	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	9	2 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 2025. 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
2025	England and Wales	female	#4867	4	High	Verified
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.

Where Janie is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Janie, between 1977 and 2025, in 23 of those 49 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1977–1985	2	#518 in 1977
England and Wales	1996–2025	21	#1168 in 1996

Its high point came 19 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1977) than in England and Wales (1996).

No registrar recorded it for 10 years after 1985; it appears again in 1996.

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.

Abina#518
Aedin#518
Aisleen#518
Alena#518

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 2,577 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
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #3985 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Donna
In 2022 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Tracy
In 2022 they stood at #5765 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.
Lene
In 2000 they stood at #2746 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2783 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Janie

Ezra
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #1411.
Jesse
In 2010 they stood at #3533 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #1489.
Francis
In 2016 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2502.
Cameron
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
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 while Alma went from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 while Alyssa went from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 while Amalie went from #2096 to #894.

Moved the same way as Janie

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 and Abigail from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 and Aimee from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 and Aisling from #440 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Janie went from #1168 to #4867 and Alex from #161 to #2605.

What's not yet available

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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 2025. Highest recorded position: #518 in Republic of Ireland in 1977. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Janie

Janie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Janie across 2 official records

Janie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Janie appears in

Popularity data

Where Janie is officially recorded

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Janie at a glance

Janie across 2 official records

Janie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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