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How popular is “Janelle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janelle” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janelle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janelle” 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
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 100%
1920 22 0.000009723 22 100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 25 0.000010858 25 100%
1924 26 0.000010917 26 100%
1925 20 0.000008572 20 100%
1926 51 0.000022213 51 100%
1927 39 0.000016815 39 100%
1928 23 0.000010173 23 100%
1929 41 0.000018703 41 100%
1930 45 0.00002024 45 100%
1931 52 0.00002471 52 100%
1932 63 0.00002984 63 100%
1933 69 0.00003451 69 100%
1934 78 0.000037557 78 100%
1935 91 0.000043543 91 100%
1936 111 0.000053428 111 100%
1937 110 0.000051627 110 100%
1938 122 0.000055139 122 100%
1939 116 0.000052645 116 100%
1940 102 0.000044296 102 100%
1941 92 0.00003776 92 100%
1942 102 0.000037338 102 100%
1943 98 0.00003472 98 100%
1944 129 0.000047954 129 100%
1945 138 0.000052018 138 100%
1946 131 0.000040998 131 100%
1947 189 0.000052466 189 100%
1948 256 0.000074149 256 100%
1949 262 0.000075184 262 100%
1950 275 0.000078496 275 100%
1951 240 0.000065151 240 100%
1952 310 0.000081622 310 100%
1953 331 0.000085893 331 100%
1954 376 0.000094456 376 100%
1955 419 0.000104357 419 100%
1956 368 0.000089255 368 100%
1957 409 0.000097331 409 100%
1958 407 0.000098454 407 100%
1959 393 0.000094517 393 100%
1960 442 0.000106408 442 100%
1961 431 0.000104048 431 100%
1962 451 0.000111762 451 100%
1963 441 0.000111414 441 100%
1964 560 0.000144048 560 100%
1965 472 0.000130191 472 100%
1966 473 0.000136089 473 100%
1967 522 0.00015376 522 100%
1968 568 0.000168126 568 100%
1969 665 0.000191349 665 100%
1970 607 0.000168307 607 100%
1971 641 0.000186752 641 100%
1972 586 0.000186446 586 100%
1973 609 0.000201864 609 100%
1974 634 0.000208553 634 100%
1975 733 0.000242764 733 100%
1976 765 0.000252117 760 5 99%
1977 1069 0.000336535 1069 100%
1978 1389 0.000437636 1384 5 99%
1979 1421 0.000427112 1416 5 99%
1980 1402 0.000407025 1395 7 99%
1981 1317 0.000380705 1317 100%
1982 1255 0.000357758 1245 10 98%
1983 1174 0.000338979 1165 9 98%
1984 1226 0.000351415 1220 6 99%
1985 1365 0.000382448 1360 5 99%
1986 1227 0.000344946 1220 7 99%
1987 1226 0.000340025 1218 8 99%
1988 1252 0.000338832 1247 5 99%
1989 1193 0.000310318 1184 9 98%
1990 1106 0.000279824 1106 100%
1991 1088 0.000279313 1088 100%
1992 1071 0.000278814 1071 100%
1993 980 0.000259928 980 100%
1994 867 0.000233212 867 100%
1995 779 0.000212716 779 100%
1996 687 0.000188364 687 100%
1997 654 0.000180377 654 100%
1998 647 0.000175901 647 100%
1999 609 0.000164868 609 100%
2000 591 0.000156353 591 100%
2001 588 0.000157077 588 100%
2002 585 0.000156489 585 100%
2003 606 0.000159376 606 100%
2004 526 0.000137663 526 100%
2005 576 0.000149811 571 5 98%
2006 824 0.000208281 824 100%
2007 817 0.000204368 817 100%
2008 884 0.000224898 884 100%
2009 781 0.000204441 781 100%
2010 813 0.000219983 813 100%
2011 813 0.000222265 813 100%
2012 739 0.000202058 739 100%
2013 777 0.00021313 777 100%
2014 713 0.000192371 713 100%
2015 680 0.000183738 680 100%
2016 667 0.000181808 667 100%
2017 628 0.000175606 628 100%
2018 527 0.000149891 527 100%
2019 549 0.000158171 549 100%
2020 427 0.000127822 427 100%
2021 447 0.000131938 447 100%
2022 434 0.000128283 434 100%
2023 417 0.000125936 417 100%
2024 362 0.000108758 362 100%

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