Janita

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Janita: Recorded since 1964, it reached #340 in 1993, and it was last ranked in 2010.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#340highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2010

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
2010	#5707

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 Norway in 28 of the 38 years from 1964 to 2001.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #517 among girls in Norway in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2001
Highest recorded position: #340 among girls in Norway, in 1993 (recorded 1964–2001).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #5707 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010.
England and Wales · Girls

Janita appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 208 births with the name.

Janita 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.

Janita'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
Norway · Girls	#517 (1964)	#340 (1993)	#595 (2001)	28 of 38	208 (1964–2001)	13 (1991)
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#3174 (1997)	#5707 (2010)	2 of 14	7 (1997–2010)	4 (1997)

Janita by decade in Norway · 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 Janita in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	37	5 of 10	7
1970s	49	8 of 10	6
1980s	61	8 of 10	8
1990sbusiest	57	6 of 10	10
2000s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Janita 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 1964 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #340 in Norway in 1993.

Janita'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
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#595	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#580	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#443	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#340	13	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#551	6	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#341	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#369	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#425	10	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#453	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#399	11	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#557	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#422	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#653	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#640	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#492	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#563	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#511	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#507	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#553	5	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#539	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#437	8	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#405	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#342	10	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#428	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#388	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#371	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#517	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2010, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #340, first reached in 1993.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in Norway in 1991.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 33 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.

Janine · #31, 59y
Janis · #223, 39y
Janiyah · #2325, 14y
Jann · #179, 36y

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.

Antoine · #339, 30y
Herbie · #339, 29y
Nicol · #341, 26y
Ayrton · #342, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Hussain · #340, 40y
Hanan · #339, 54y
Julianna · #339, 34y
Larissa · #339, 35y

Janita was ranked #340 in Norway · Girls in 1993. 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.

Janita 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 Janita without appearing here.

Janita moved ahead of

Vigdis Compare
In 1992 they stood at #551 and #454 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #340 and #676.
Grace Compare
In 1992 they stood at #551 and #406 in Norway · Girls; by 1993 that had become #340 and #571.
Gerd Compare
In 1989 they stood at #425 and #420 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #369 and #513.
Janet Compare
In 1984 they stood at #653 and #505 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #422 and #565.

Moved ahead of Janita

Lara Compare
In 2000 they stood at #443 and #525 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #595 and #275.
Amanda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #422 and #433 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #557 and #253.
Selma Compare
In 1991 they stood at #341 and #347 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #551 and #281.
Katherine Compare
In 2000 they stood at #340 and #535 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #595 and #334.

Moved the opposite way to Janita

Ada Compare
Between 1966 and 2001 in Norway · Girls, Janita went from #371 to #595 while Ada went from #343 to #120.
Isabella Compare
Between 1966 and 2001 in Norway · Girls, Janita went from #371 to #595 while Isabella went from #475 to #163.
Kine Compare
Between 1966 and 2001 in Norway · Girls, Janita went from #371 to #595 while Kine went from #480 to #89.
Maja Compare
Between 1966 and 2001 in Norway · Girls, Janita went from #371 to #595 while Maja went from #482 to #50.

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 1964 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #340 in Norway in 1993. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Janita

Janita at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Janita across 2 official records

Janita by decade in Norway · Girls

Janita appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Janita moved ahead of

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Janita at a glance

Janita across 2 official records

Janita by decade in Norway · Girls

Janita appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Janita

Janita and the names beside it

Janita moved ahead of

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