Jane
Jane is ranked 269th among girls in 2024 (1,180 births). Its best rank was 35th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- #269up 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1800.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 19479,942 births
- Best rank
- #35in 1946
- Since 1880
- 379,619people given the name
The story in the numbers
378,486 girls have been named Jane in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 9,942 births — 0.56% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 322 → 269).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 60 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,133 boys have also been given it, 0.30% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jane | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,971 | |
| 1890s | 3,882 | |
| 1900s | 4,498 | |
| 1910s | 27,740 | |
| 1920s | 48,049 | |
| 1930s | 45,814 | |
| 1940s | 72,537 | |
| 1950s | 82,919 | |
| 1960s | 43,338 | |
| 1970s | 9,484 | |
| 1980s | 7,438 | |
| 1990s | 6,692 | |
| 2000s | 7,123 | |
| 2010s | 10,277 | |
| 2020s | 5,724 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Jane was the 36th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Jane
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Phillispeak 1949
- Kathernpeak 1954
- Constancepeak 1950
- Georginepeak 1951
- Annpeak 1957
- Nitapeak 1956
- Eileenpeak 1947
- Robertapeak 1953
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.