Janiel
Janiel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201152 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 1,069people given the name
The story in the numbers
862 boys have been named Janiel in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 52 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 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 51%.
Janiel is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are girls (207), most of them born around 1985.
By decade
In 2011, its biggest year
Janiel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Janiel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jayvenpeak 2015
- Korbinpeak 2014
- Jakobypeak 2018
- Abdirahmanpeak 2013
- Abdullahipeak 2013
- Corbynpeak 2011
- Brycenpeak 2011
- Korbenpeak 2013
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.