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Girl · English pet form of a Hebrew name
Janie
Say it: JAY-nee
Meaning
A pet form of Jane, from Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common in the US from the 1880s to the mid-1900s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1900s
In the United States
- 75,149 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1901, about 1 in 861 girls
- 111 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Janey
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.