Jayni
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Jayni by the numbers
Jayni was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 22 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Jayni
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 Jayni. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jayni
Names that are said the same way as Jayni, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Janniegod is gracious; a form of Jane or Jeanne13 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Jayni
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