Janira
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Janira by the numbers
Janira was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 30 babies in 1988, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Janira
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 Janira. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- JaniyaGod is gracious; a form of Jane184 in the US (2017)
- JaniaGod is gracious; a form of Jane or Jeanie34 in the US (2017)
- Janinagod is gracious; a form of jeannine or janine6 in England and Wales (2025)
- JanikaGod is gracious; feminine form of Janek8 in the US (2017)
- Janicagod is gracious; feminine diminutive of john6 in the US (2017)
- Jasirabold, courageous6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Janira
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