Janessa
Janessa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 134 births. Its best rank was 524th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1340.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009556 births
- Best rank
- #524in 2004
- Since 1954
- 14,601people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,601 girls have been named Janessa in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 556 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 32%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Janessa was the 545th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Janessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Caliepeak 2008
- Kaydeepeak 2009
- Keilapeak 2006
- Analiciapeak 2007
- Krislynpeak 2003
- Alizabethpeak 2007
- Jessalynpeak 2001
- Kallipeak 2007
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.