Janaya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 15 babies a year in England and Wales.
Janaya by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Janaya. In the US, 55 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 198 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Janaya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Janaya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Janaya
Names that are said the same way as Janaya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Janaegod is gracious; a modern spelling of Jane214 in the US (2017)
- Janiahgarden, paradise; a form of Jannah109 in the US (2017)
- Jayannagod is gracious; a form of Johanna44 in the US (2017)
- JaniaGod is gracious; a form of Jane or Jeanie34 in the US (2017)
- Jahannagod is gracious; a form of Johanna5 in the US (2017)
- Jayana39 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Janaya
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