Janisha
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Janisha by the numbers
Janisha was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 58 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Janisha
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 Janisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Jenisha3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Janiyha7 in the US (2017)
- Janessagod is gracious; feminine form of John300 in the US (2017)
- JaniyaGod is gracious; a form of Jane184 in the US (2017)
- Janiahgarden, paradise; a form of Jannah109 in the US (2017)
- JaniaGod is gracious; a form of Jane or Jeanie34 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Janisha
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