# Janne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/janne/  
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 | 511 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 511 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | 9,420 |
| 1980 | 10 | 6,475 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,457 |
| 1985 | 5 | 11,329 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,627 |
| 1988 | 7 | 9,658 |
| 1990 | 10 | 8,122 |
| 1991 | 7 | 10,727 |
| 1992 | 5 | 14,139 |
| 1993 | 8 | 9,957 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,416 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,095 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,539 |
| 2003 | 9 | 10,784 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,728 |

## People named Janne

- Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
- Janne Happonen, Finnish ski jumper
- Janne Lahtela, Finnish male freestyle skier
- Janne Kolling, Danish handball player
- Janne Holmén, Finnish athletics competitor, historian and university teacher
- Janne Lundblad, equestrian (1887–1940)
- Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player
- Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboardist
- Janne Teller, Danish author
- Janne Saarinen, Finnish footballer
- Janne Korpi, Finland snowboarder
- Janne Laukkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

## 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.