Jan
Jan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 131st, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19563,201 births
- Best rank
- #131in 1954
- Since 1911
- 76,882people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,527 girls have been named Jan in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 3,201 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 3,201 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 48%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Jan is used for both sexes: 29% of its bearers are boys (22,355), most of them born around 1954.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 110 | |
| 1920s | 323 | |
| 1930s | 1,787 | |
| 1940s | 8,717 | |
| 1950s | 26,169 | |
| 1960s | 12,828 | |
| 1970s | 3,095 | |
| 1980s | 1,126 | |
| 1990s | 230 | |
| 2000s | 87 | |
| 2010s | 45 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Jan was the 136th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Jan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jannpeak 1956
- Katheypeak 1956
- Vickipeak 1954
- Risepeak 1955
- Suzanpeak 1955
- Catheypeak 1953
- Luannepeak 1954
- Vickiepeak 1956
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.