Janiyah

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒnɪjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Janiyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modern American coinage.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,426 people, 2020

Sources
151 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Modern American coinage.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Janiyah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Janiyah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8,4261 in 39K8.4KJaniyah151
NL Netherlands61 in 2.9M6——
PH Philippines≈5 est.≈1 in 24M—Janiyah4
GB United Kingdom≈4 est.≈1 in 18MlistedJaniyah11
AU Australia≈2 est.≈1 in 14M—Janiyah3
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—1

8,426 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Janiyah,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Janiyah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.4K#2,767
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2009994—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2008929—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2010914—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2011791—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2007758—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2012714—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2006686—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2013645—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2005639—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2015582—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2016552—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Janiyah mean, and where does it come from?
Modern American coinage. Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Janiyah?
In the etymology graph, Janiya is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Janiyah?
A machine transcription gives /dʒnɪjə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Janiyah a male or female name?
Janiyah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Janiyah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Janiyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled janiyah.
Where is Janiyah most common?
Janiyah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Janiyah?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,426 people named Janiyah in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Janiyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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