Janie
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Janie
Will this old-fashioned nickname make a comeback, now that Jane has shed her "plain" image? Janie is cute and approachable, and would stand as well on the birth certificate as Josie and Jessie do now.
Spanish speakers pronounce Janie with an H sound at the beginning.
Janie is also given to boys.
Pronounced JAY-nee.
As of October 2026, Janie ranked #8438 in US births in 1989 SSA, peaked at #1982 in 1935.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | #1,394 | 165 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | #1,389 | 170 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | #1,458 | 158 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | #1,639 | 132 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | #1,679 | 124 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | #1,533 | 141 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | #1,785 | 111 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | #1,632 | 128 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | #1,465 | 151 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | #1,545 | 138 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | #1,541 | 138 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | #1,329 | 168 |
World rankings
Janie for girls
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Janie on lists
Famous Janies
- Janie Marie FrickeGirl
American country music singer
- Janie DeeGirl
English actress and singer
- Jane Ann "Janie" SellGirl
American actress
- Janie Porter BarrettGirl
American educator and reformer
- Elizabeth Jane "Janie" WagstaffGirl
American swimmer
- Janie TsaoGirl
Taiwanese,American founder of Linksys
- Jane "Janie" AllanGirl
Scottish suffragette
- Janie BradfordGirl
American songwriter
- Janie Marèse (born Jeanne Marie Thérèse Bugnot)Girl
French actress
- Janie TienphosuwanGirl
American,Thai actress
- Janie (b.2020) daughter of Joshua Jackson and Jodie TurnerGirl
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Janie in pop culture
- Jane Elizabeth "Janie" Johnson/Jennie Marie SpringGirl
character in The Face on the Milk Carton series by Caroline B. Cooney
- Janie HobbsGirl
character on TV's "See Dad Run"
- Janie CrawfordGirl
main character in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
- Janie ConwayGirl
main character in 1944 film "Janie"
- Janie SteadmanGirl
child character on TV's "thirtysomething"
- "Janie's Got A GunGirl
" song by Aerosmith
- "Janie JonesGirl
" song by The Clash