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How popular is “Janel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Janel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Janel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Janel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Janel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Janel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1935 29 0.000013876 29 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 16 0.000006567 16 100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 100%
1947 41 0.000011382 41 100%
1948 55 0.00001593 55 100%
1949 62 0.000017792 62 100%
1950 73 0.000020837 73 100%
1951 83 0.000022531 83 100%
1952 83 0.000021854 83 100%
1953 79 0.0000205 79 100%
1954 102 0.000025624 102 100%
1955 86 0.000021419 86 100%
1956 87 0.000021101 87 100%
1957 103 0.000024511 103 100%
1958 110 0.000026609 110 100%
1959 107 0.000025734 107 100%
1960 110 0.000026482 110 100%
1961 142 0.00003428 142 100%
1962 121 0.000029985 121 100%
1963 106 0.00002678 106 100%
1964 130 0.00003344 130 100%
1965 105 0.000028962 105 100%
1966 114 0.0000328 114 100%
1967 184 0.000054199 184 100%
1968 252 0.000074591 252 100%
1969 312 0.000089776 312 100%
1970 386 0.000107029 386 100%
1971 429 0.000124987 424 5 98%
1972 362 0.000115177 357 5 97%
1973 333 0.000110379 333 100%
1974 310 0.000101974 310 100%
1975 346 0.000114593 346 100%
1976 346 0.00011403 346 100%
1977 387 0.000121832 387 100%
1978 413 0.000130125 413 100%
1979 364 0.000109408 359 5 97%
1980 402 0.000116708 397 5 98%
1981 324 0.000093659 324 100%
1982 283 0.000080674 283 100%
1983 234 0.000067565 228 6 95%
1984 207 0.000059333 207 100%
1985 185 0.000051834 185 100%
1986 231 0.000064941 231 100%
1987 280 0.000077657 280 100%
1988 255 0.000069011 255 100%
1989 244 0.000063468 238 6 95%
1990 194 0.000049083 194 100%
1991 236 0.000060586 236 100%
1992 223 0.000058054 223 100%
1993 203 0.000053842 203 100%
1994 189 0.000050839 189 100%
1995 163 0.000044509 163 100%
1996 160 0.000043869 160 100%
1997 114 0.000031442 114 100%
1998 130 0.000035343 130 100%
1999 106 0.000028696 106 100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 100%
2001 101 0.000026981 101 100%
2002 78 0.000020865 78 100%
2003 92 0.000024196 92 100%
2004 78 0.000020414 78 100%
2005 59 0.000015345 59 100%
2006 56 0.000014155 56 100%
2007 57 0.000014258 57 100%
2008 69 0.000017554 69 100%
2009 64 0.000016753 64 100%
2010 43 0.000011635 43 100%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 100%
2013 41 0.000011246 41 100%
2014 38 0.000010253 38 100%
2015 31 0.000008376 31 100%
2016 36 0.000009813 36 100%
2017 32 0.000008948 32 100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 100%
2019 26 0.000007491 26 100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 100%
2021 23 0.000006789 23 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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