Janayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ja-NAY-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Janayah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
Where does Janayah come from?
Spelling of Janaya; name of uncertain origin
Meaning borrowed from Janaya.
Is Janayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Janayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Janayah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Janayah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2018, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were given Janayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,314, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Janayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
How popular is Janayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 21% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Janayah, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2007, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Janayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 93 girls in the US were given Janayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,785, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.
Janayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,233 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,321 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 21 | #5,983 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,023 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,334 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,406 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,369 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,447 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,289 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,733 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,583 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,985 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,938 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,250 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
Names like Janayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Aaliyah, Safa, Zainab, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Amira, Amaya, Khadija, Hafsa, Raya
Other spellings of Janayah
Names related to Janayah
Jannah, Janiyah, Janae, Janan, Janiah, Janai, Jayanna, Jayana
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Janayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/janayah, updated 20 October 2026.