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How popular is “Janis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janis” 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
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 100%
1912 15 0.000015181 15 100%
1913 20 0.000017588 20 100%
1914 34 0.000024005 34 100%
1915 39 0.000021283 39 100%
1916 54 0.000027915 54 100%
1917 55 0.000027407 55 100%
1918 74 0.000034084 74 100%
1919 79 0.000037436 79 100%
1920 121 0.000053477 121 100%
1921 105 0.000044977 105 100%
1922 106 0.000046305 106 100%
1923 107 0.000046472 107 100%
1924 133 0.000055845 133 100%
1925 140 0.000060001 140 100%
1926 145 0.000063156 145 100%
1927 197 0.000084937 197 100%
1928 199 0.000088017 194 5 95%
1929 226 0.000103095 226 100%
1930 270 0.000121442 270 100%
1931 261 0.000124027 261 100%
1932 312 0.000147777 306 6 96%
1933 361 0.00018055 361 100%
1934 412 0.000198381 412 100%
1935 448 0.000214364 448 100%
1936 599 0.000288316 599 100%
1937 722 0.000338861 716 6 98%
1938 645 0.000291516 640 5 98%
1939 620 0.000281378 620 100%
1940 578 0.000251011 578 100%
1941 601 0.000246673 596 5 98%
1942 719 0.000263195 719 100%
1943 658 0.000233122 651 7 98%
1944 734 0.000272854 729 5 99%
1945 1133 0.000427078 1128 5 99%
1946 2060 0.000644695 2053 7 99%
1947 3217 0.000893035 3205 12 99%
1948 2750 0.00079652 2745 5 100%
1949 2458 0.000705354 2458 100%
1950 2301 0.000656798 2295 6 99%
1951 2557 0.000694132 2550 7 99%
1952 2189 0.000576355 2181 8 99%
1953 1872 0.000485774 1864 8 99%
1954 1791 0.00044992 1791 100%
1955 1850 0.000460763 1840 10 99%
1956 2372 0.000575304 2364 8 99%
1957 1553 0.000369573 1553 100%
1958 1224 0.000296088 1224 100%
1959 1012 0.000243387 1012 100%
1960 862 0.00020752 856 6 99%
1961 708 0.000170919 708 100%
1962 600 0.000148685 591 9 97%
1963 664 0.000167753 664 100%
1964 523 0.00013453 516 7 97%
1965 427 0.000117779 427 100%
1966 345 0.000099262 345 100%
1967 306 0.000090135 306 100%
1968 284 0.000084063 284 100%
1969 275 0.000079129 270 5 96%
1970 244 0.000067655 244 100%
1971 280 0.000081577 280 100%
1972 209 0.000066497 203 6 94%
1973 168 0.000055687 163 5 94%
1974 161 0.000052961 161 100%
1975 155 0.000051335 155 100%
1976 171 0.000056356 171 100%
1977 161 0.000050685 161 100%
1978 154 0.000048521 154 100%
1979 161 0.000048392 161 100%
1980 143 0.000041515 138 5 93%
1981 124 0.000035845 124 100%
1982 106 0.000030217 106 100%
1983 102 0.000029451 102 100%
1984 75 0.000021498 75 100%
1985 80 0.000022415 80 100%
1986 63 0.000017711 63 100%
1987 47 0.000013035 47 100%
1988 55 0.000014885 55 100%
1989 75 0.000019509 75 100%
1990 46 0.000011638 46 100%
1991 40 0.000010269 40 100%
1992 53 0.000013798 53 100%
1993 45 0.000011935 45 100%
1994 54 0.000014525 54 100%
1995 46 0.000012561 46 100%
1996 32 0.000008774 32 100%
1997 40 0.000011032 40 100%
1998 53 0.000014409 53 100%
1999 52 0.000014077 52 100%
2000 41 0.000010847 36 5 76%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 100%
2002 44 0.00001177 44 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 40 0.000010469 40 100%
2005 36 0.000009363 36 100%
2006 31 0.000007836 31 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 100%
2009 35 0.000009162 35 100%
2010 36 0.000009741 36 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 100%
2014 33 0.000008904 33 100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 100%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 10 5 33%
2023 17 0.000005134 11 6 29%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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