Girls' name · peaked in 1965

Janine name popularity since 1925

33,486 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Janine. Half of them were born in 1967 or earlier, so the typical Janine is about 59 years old in 2026. Janine peaked in 1965 as the #232 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 33,486; Named Janine, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1965; #232 for girls that year
Typical age: About 59; Median birth year 1967
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #5,805 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 33,475 girls · 11 boys
Most popular in: New York; 2.71× its national share

Peak year is the year Janine made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Janine births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year by count was 1960. Measured as a share of all babies, Janine peaked in 1965.

Fastest rise: Between 1949 and 1954, Janine became 2.8× more common, from 1 in 6,630 baby girls to 1 in 2,390.
Steepest fall: Between 1992 and 1997, its share of baby girls fell by 49%, from 1 in 6,400 to 1 in 12,600.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Janine's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Janine.

Decade by decade

Babies named Janine in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	45	0	–
1930s	371	0	#1,314
1940s	1,368	0	#775
1950s	5,956	0	#314
1960s	11,758	11	#232
1970s	6,067	0	#410
1980s	4,452	0	#484
1990s	2,084	0	#1,024
2000s	812	0	#2,097
2010s	422	0	#3,273
2020–25	140	0	#5,805

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

39.7% of babies named Janine from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Baby Boom years (1946–1964). The full split by generation:

Where Janine is most popular

The index compares Janine's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Janine.

State	Index	Babies
New York	2.71×	6,190
New Jersey	2.42×	2,008
Massachusetts	1.94×	1,388
Pennsylvania	1.77×	2,702
California	1.53×	4,858

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Janine and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

Spelling	Girls	Peak year
Janine (this page)	33,475	1965
Jannie	10,106	1910
Janene	3,545	1970

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Janine's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Janine.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Janine (1965).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data