Janie

JAY-nee; HA-nee

Diminutive of Jane, English

"God is gracious"

Janie Origin and Meaning

Variation of Eugenia

Janie Rank in US Top 1000

# 946 in the US

Popularity of the name Janie

• 1870 Nameberry 2025
• 541 Unique 2024

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Famous People Named Janie

• Janie Marie Fricke American country music singer
• Janie Dee English actress and singer
• Jane Ann "Janie" Sell American actress
• Janie Porter Barrett American educator and reformer
• Elizabeth Jane "Janie" Wagstaff American swimmer
• Janie Tsao Taiwanese,American founder of Linksys
• Jane "Janie" Allan Scottish suffragette
• Janie Bradford American songwriter
• Janie Marèse (born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot) French actress
• Janie Tienphosuwan American,Thai actress
• Janie (b.2020) daughter of Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner Smith.

The name Janie in Pop Culture

• Jane Elizabeth "Janie" Johnson/Jennie Marie Spring character in The Face on the Milk Carton series by Caroline B. Cooney
• Janie Hobbs character on TV's "See Dad Run"
• Janie Crawford main character in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
• Janie Conway main character in 1944 film "Janie"
• Janie Steadman child character on TV's "thirtysomething"
• "Janie's Got A Gun " song by Aerosmith
• "Janie Jones " song by The Clash