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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jana” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jana” 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
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 100%
1935 21 0.000010048 21 100%
1936 31 0.000014921 31 100%
1937 40 0.000018773 40 100%
1938 41 0.00001853 41 100%
1939 34 0.00001543 34 100%
1940 43 0.000018674 43 100%
1941 66 0.000027089 66 100%
1942 141 0.000051614 141 100%
1943 154 0.00005456 154 100%
1944 131 0.000048697 131 100%
1945 140 0.000052772 140 100%
1946 171 0.000053516 171 100%
1947 230 0.000063848 230 100%
1948 288 0.000083417 288 100%
1949 297 0.000085228 297 100%
1950 307 0.00008763 307 100%
1951 371 0.000100713 371 100%
1952 500 0.000131648 500 100%
1953 655 0.000169969 655 100%
1954 846 0.000212525 846 100%
1955 868 0.000216185 868 100%
1956 841 0.000203976 841 100%
1957 848 0.000201802 848 100%
1958 910 0.000220131 910 100%
1959 938 0.00022559 938 100%
1960 980 0.000235928 980 100%
1961 1457 0.000351737 1457 100%
1962 1312 0.000325125 1312 100%
1963 1320 0.000333485 1311 9 99%
1964 1227 0.000315618 1227 100%
1965 1094 0.000301756 1094 100%
1966 1139 0.000327708 1139 100%
1967 1074 0.000316357 1074 100%
1968 1011 0.000299253 1011 100%
1969 1008 0.000290045 1008 100%
1970 1030 0.000285594 1025 5 99%
1971 964 0.000280857 964 100%
1972 863 0.000274579 863 100%
1973 827 0.000274124 827 100%
1974 801 0.000263487 801 100%
1975 821 0.000271909 821 100%
1976 798 0.000262993 798 100%
1977 955 0.000300646 949 6 99%
1978 959 0.000302155 959 100%
1979 1161 0.000348963 1161 100%
1980 1051 0.000305124 1046 5 99%
1981 939 0.000271436 939 100%
1982 843 0.00024031 843 100%
1983 741 0.000213955 741 100%
1984 757 0.000216983 757 100%
1985 703 0.000196968 696 7 98%
1986 684 0.000192293 677 7 98%
1987 582 0.000161415 582 100%
1988 505 0.00013667 505 100%
1989 481 0.000125116 481 100%
1990 433 0.000109552 433 100%
1991 383 0.000098325 383 100%
1992 340 0.000088512 340 100%
1993 305 0.000080896 305 100%
1994 260 0.000069937 260 100%
1995 271 0.000074 271 100%
1996 234 0.000064159 234 100%
1997 231 0.000063711 231 100%
1998 248 0.000067424 248 100%
1999 247 0.000066868 247 100%
2000 229 0.000060584 229 100%
2001 235 0.000062777 235 100%
2002 254 0.000067945 254 100%
2003 218 0.000057333 218 100%
2004 250 0.000065429 250 100%
2005 252 0.000065542 252 100%
2006 245 0.000061928 245 100%
2007 247 0.000061786 247 100%
2008 226 0.000057497 226 100%
2009 239 0.000062563 239 100%
2010 242 0.000065481 242 100%
2011 213 0.000058232 213 100%
2012 238 0.000065074 238 100%
2013 244 0.000066929 244 100%
2014 229 0.000061785 229 100%
2015 266 0.000071874 266 100%
2016 301 0.000082045 301 100%
2017 292 0.000081651 292 100%
2018 269 0.00007651 269 100%
2019 237 0.000068281 237 100%
2020 234 0.000070048 234 100%
2021 227 0.000067002 227 100%
2022 214 0.000063255 214 100%
2023 200 0.000060401 200 100%
2024 171 0.000051374 171 100%

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