# Jani (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jani/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,743 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 84 / 1,659 (95% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | 7,331 |
| 2011 | 13 | 8,844 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,395 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,387 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,800 |
| 2015 | 5 | 17,575 |
| 2016 | 24 | 5,523 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,268 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,566 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,051 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9,843 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,518 |
| 2022 | 14 | 7,795 |
| 2024 | 15 | 7,387 |
| 2025 | 14 | 7,644 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | 7,630 |
| 1998 | 6 | 8,950 |
| 1999 | 6 | 9,197 |
| 2001 | 11 | 6,194 |
| 2002 | 6 | 9,922 |
| 2003 | 9 | 7,507 |
| 2004 | 10 | 7,211 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,657 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,677 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,276 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10,079 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,966 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |

## People named Jani

- Jani Soininen, Finnish ski jumper
- Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer
- Jani Liimatainen, Finnish musician
- Jani Lane, American rock singer (1964–2011)
- Jani Lajunen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jani Lyyski, Finnish football player
- Jani Sullanmaa, Finnish male curler
- Jani Hakanpää, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jani Toivola, Finnish actor and politician (born 1977)
- Jani Hurme, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Jani Mäkelä, Finnish politician
- Jani Vreto, Albanian writer (1822-1900)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.