Janie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Janie is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,400 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,399 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 64,134 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Janie. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Janie annualy. This means that there have been girls named Janie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Janie have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Janie even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record of rank #131 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Janie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Janie has never been ranked higher than #131. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,326 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 150 girls named Janie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Janie were born, there have been 304 newborns who received this name.
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 Janie 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 Janie 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 Janie, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Janie
Janie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
N
I
E
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
I
E
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. Janie sounds like this:
