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How popular is “Janessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janessa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janessa” 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
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 100%
1971 18 0.000005244 18 100%
1972 20 0.000006363 20 100%
1973 26 0.000008618 26 100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 100%
1975 36 0.000011923 36 100%
1976 33 0.000010876 33 100%
1977 45 0.000014167 45 100%
1978 58 0.000018274 58 100%
1979 79 0.000023745 79 100%
1980 117 0.000033967 117 100%
1981 132 0.000038157 132 100%
1982 131 0.000037344 131 100%
1983 132 0.000038114 132 100%
1984 155 0.000044428 155 100%
1985 152 0.000042588 152 100%
1986 205 0.000057632 205 100%
1987 212 0.000058797 212 100%
1988 242 0.000065493 242 100%
1989 246 0.000063988 246 100%
1990 318 0.000080456 318 100%
1991 369 0.00009473 369 100%
1992 291 0.000075756 291 100%
1993 272 0.000072143 272 100%
1994 311 0.000083655 311 100%
1995 264 0.000072089 264 100%
1996 307 0.000084174 307 100%
1997 304 0.000083845 304 100%
1998 319 0.000086727 319 100%
1999 321 0.000086901 321 100%
2000 346 0.000091537 346 100%
2001 352 0.000094032 352 100%
2002 390 0.000104326 390 100%
2003 465 0.000122294 465 100%
2004 544 0.000142374 544 100%
2005 488 0.000126923 488 100%
2006 488 0.000123351 488 100%
2007 547 0.000136829 547 100%
2008 536 0.000136364 536 100%
2009 556 0.000145543 556 100%
2010 527 0.000142597 527 100%
2011 451 0.000123298 451 100%
2012 426 0.000116477 426 100%
2013 407 0.000111639 407 100%
2014 368 0.000099288 368 100%
2015 397 0.000107271 397 100%
2016 312 0.000085044 312 100%
2017 303 0.000084727 303 100%
2018 271 0.000077078 271 100%
2019 227 0.0000654 227 100%
2020 208 0.000062265 208 100%
2021 209 0.000061689 209 100%
2022 206 0.00006089 206 100%
2023 166 0.000050133 166 100%
2024 134 0.000040258 134 100%

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