Janson
Janson is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201635 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1958
- 1,153people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,153 boys have been named Janson in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 35 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 21%.
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Janson was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Janson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kendricpeak 2013
- Thaddaeuspeak 2005
- Tarekpeak 1996
- Kamalpeak 2009
- Ioannispeak 2018
- Alonpeak 2022
- Larenzopeak 2019
- Rahimpeak 2018
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.