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How popular is “Janell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janell” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Janell” 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 “Janell” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janell” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 100%
1925 23 0.000009857 23 100%
1926 92 0.000040071 92 100%
1927 48 0.000020695 48 100%
1928 27 0.000011942 27 100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 100%
1932 48 0.000022735 48 100%
1933 48 0.000024007 48 100%
1934 59 0.000028409 59 100%
1935 70 0.000033494 70 100%
1936 88 0.000042357 88 100%
1937 74 0.000034731 74 100%
1938 79 0.000035705 79 100%
1939 79 0.000035853 79 100%
1940 83 0.000036045 83 100%
1941 77 0.000031604 77 100%
1942 78 0.000028552 78 100%
1943 103 0.000036492 103 100%
1944 93 0.000034571 93 100%
1945 80 0.000030156 80 100%
1946 112 0.000035051 112 100%
1947 140 0.000038864 140 100%
1948 97 0.000028095 97 100%
1949 168 0.00004821 168 100%
1950 158 0.0000451 158 100%
1951 147 0.000039905 147 100%
1952 179 0.00004713 179 100%
1953 200 0.000051899 200 100%
1954 263 0.000066069 263 100%
1955 199 0.000049563 199 100%
1956 215 0.000052146 215 100%
1957 239 0.000056876 239 100%
1958 216 0.000052251 216 100%
1959 218 0.000052429 218 100%
1960 234 0.000056334 234 100%
1961 275 0.000066388 275 100%
1962 282 0.000069882 282 100%
1963 213 0.000053812 213 100%
1964 259 0.000066622 259 100%
1965 286 0.000078887 286 100%
1966 233 0.000067038 233 100%
1967 236 0.000069516 236 100%
1968 261 0.000077255 261 100%
1969 258 0.000074238 258 100%
1970 274 0.000075974 274 100%
1971 280 0.000081577 280 100%
1972 223 0.000070951 223 100%
1973 258 0.000085519 258 100%
1974 209 0.00006875 209 100%
1975 298 0.000098695 298 100%
1976 293 0.000096563 293 100%
1977 267 0.000084055 267 100%
1978 334 0.000105234 334 100%
1979 421 0.00012654 416 5 98%
1980 340 0.000098708 340 100%
1981 330 0.000095393 330 100%
1982 308 0.0000878 308 100%
1983 286 0.000082579 286 100%
1984 288 0.000082551 288 100%
1985 265 0.000074248 260 5 96%
1986 242 0.000068033 242 100%
1987 253 0.000070168 245 8 94%
1988 241 0.000065223 241 100%
1989 216 0.000056185 216 100%
1990 227 0.000057432 227 100%
1991 202 0.000051858 202 100%
1992 216 0.000056231 216 100%
1993 185 0.000049068 185 100%
1994 191 0.000051377 191 100%
1995 147 0.00004014 147 100%
1996 145 0.000039757 145 100%
1997 147 0.000040543 147 100%
1998 149 0.000040509 149 100%
1999 123 0.000033298 123 100%
2000 126 0.000033334 126 100%
2001 102 0.000027248 102 100%
2002 111 0.000029693 111 100%
2003 99 0.000026037 94 5 90%
2004 119 0.000031144 119 100%
2005 85 0.000022108 85 100%
2006 117 0.000029574 117 100%
2007 119 0.000029767 119 100%
2008 123 0.000031292 123 100%
2009 131 0.000034292 131 100%
2010 96 0.000025976 96 100%
2011 88 0.000024058 88 100%
2012 77 0.000021053 77 100%
2013 59 0.000016184 59 100%
2014 54 0.000014569 54 100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 100%
2016 42 0.000011448 42 100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 100%
2019 40 0.000011524 40 100%
2020 38 0.000011375 38 100%
2021 27 0.000007969 27 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 100%
2024 35 0.000010515 35 100%

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