Janay is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Janay is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Janay. In the SmartGenius ranking, Janay is #3,470 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Janay.
Janay is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Janay - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 372 in 1987. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Janay really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Janay was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
16 babies were named Janay in 2022 - that's 1 in 9,264,494 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Janay ranked 6,090 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Janay, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Janay. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Janay living in one state or another. If your name is Janay and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Janay relative to the population, you still have to ask 10,651 women and girls their names before you hear Janay as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Janay is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Janay and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Janay, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Nut
Apple
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Janay
Janay
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
N
A
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
N
A
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Janay sounds like this:
