Janalyn
Recorded 1946–2022 · United States
Janalyn was most popular in 1970, when 16 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,626 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 537 people named Janalyn.
Janalyn over time
How old is the name Janalyn?
Janalyn first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1946, which makes it about 79 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 60 of the 80 years since.
How many people are named Janalyn?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 537 American births named Janalyn between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 491 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Janalyn in 2025?
Janalyn was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Janalyn getting more or less popular?
Janalyn is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Janalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Janalyn is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 537 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Janalyn?
Roughly 491 Americans named Janalyn are alive today — 91% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 50 years old, and half are between 38 and 63.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org