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Janita

“God is gracious”

Language contexts for this entry: Dutch, Danish, Finnish and 3 more

feminineLatin script

[ˈjɑ̝nit̪ɑ̝] · Finnish

Origin: Not established
6 language contexts: Dutch Danish Finnish +3 more
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Janita

Janita is a feminine given name documented in Dutch, Danish, Finnish and 3 other languages. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it. It is a form of Johanna, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “God is gracious”.

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

20th century variant of Johanna (like Janika and Janina), in the fashion of names like Anita and Marita. Analyzable as a feminine form of Jani.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Janita is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Janita’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 6 girls (rank 13208).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Janita

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1963; 57 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Janita in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	6	3,795	observed
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	6	4,445	observed
1923	6	4,376	observed
1924	10	3,144	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	7	3,743	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	8	3,345	observed
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	14	2,235	observed
1933	10	2,688	observed
1934	6	3,802	observed
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	10	2,689	observed
1937	13	2,317	observed
1938	7	3,450	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	6	3,863	observed
1941	11	2,668	observed
1942	14	2,416	observed
1943	11	2,861	observed
1944	20	1,916	observed
1945	12	2,598	observed
1946	17	2,318	observed
1947	23	2,045	observed
1948	8	3,883	observed
1949	13	2,850	observed
1950	20	2,185	observed
1951	18	2,391	observed
1952	17	2,581	observed
1953	20	2,363	observed
1954	24	2,186	observed
1955	20	2,472	observed
1956	16	2,929	observed
1957	24	2,276	observed
1958	24	2,322	observed
1959	24	2,339	observed
1960	37	1,855	observed
1961	32	2,070	observed
1962	26	2,357	observed
1963	57	1,478	observed
1964	36	1,975	observed
1965	38	1,854	observed
1966	32	2,058	observed
1967	28	2,272	observed
1968	23	2,630	observed
1969	13	3,958	observed
1970	27	2,647	observed
1971	26	2,736	observed
1972	25	2,747	observed
1973	22	3,015	observed
1974	18	3,558	observed
1975	20	3,404	observed
1976	25	2,932	observed
1977	30	2,715	observed
1978	22	3,388	observed
1979	30	2,860	observed
1980	32	2,800	observed
1981	39	2,447	observed
1982	43	2,288	observed
1983	32	2,721	observed
1984	42	2,299	observed
1985	34	2,749	observed
1986	30	3,054	observed
1987	29	3,169	observed
1988	38	2,744	observed
1989	37	2,931	observed
1990	36	3,078	observed
1991	30	3,540	observed
1992	30	3,581	observed
1993	32	3,422	observed
1994	16	5,713	observed
1995	22	4,518	observed
1996	20	4,883	observed
1997	11	7,742	observed
1998	18	5,583	observed
1999	12	7,716	observed
2000	13	7,580	observed
2001	14	7,317	observed
2002	18	6,129	observed
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	6	14,179	observed
2005	11	9,452	observed
2006	16	7,482	observed
2007	14	8,520	observed
2008	7	13,832	observed
2009	12	9,379	observed
2010	16	7,513	observed
2011	13	8,614	observed
2012	12	9,109	observed
2013	9	11,000	observed
2014	14	8,053	observed
2015	12	8,931	observed
2016	6	14,331	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	5	15,088	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	5	15,194	observed
2024	8	11,122	observed
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Janita” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Janita with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q18760772CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Janita

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “God is gracious”

20th century variant of Johanna (like Janika and Janina), in the fashion of names like Anita and Marita. Analyzable as a feminine form of Jani.

Sources for this account (6)

Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Janita is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Janita’s connections around the world.

6 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Published statistics

United States, 2025: 6 girls (rank 13208).

Explore United States

4 of 9 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Janita

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 6; applications; Rank #13,208
Peak year: 1963; 57 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Janita in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	6	3,795	observed
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	6	4,445	observed
1923	6	4,376	observed
1924	10	3,144	observed
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	7	3,743	observed
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	8	3,345	observed
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	14	2,235	observed
1933	10	2,688	observed
1934	6	3,802	observed
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	10	2,689	observed
1937	13	2,317	observed
1938	7	3,450	observed
1939	9	2,922	observed
1940	6	3,863	observed
1941	11	2,668	observed
1942	14	2,416	observed
1943	11	2,861	observed
1944	20	1,916	observed
1945	12	2,598	observed
1946	17	2,318	observed
1947	23	2,045	observed
1948	8	3,883	observed
1949	13	2,850	observed
1950	20	2,185	observed
1951	18	2,391	observed
1952	17	2,581	observed
1953	20	2,363	observed
1954	24	2,186	observed
1955	20	2,472	observed
1956	16	2,929	observed
1957	24	2,276	observed
1958	24	2,322	observed
1959	24	2,339	observed
1960	37	1,855	observed
1961	32	2,070	observed
1962	26	2,357	observed
1963	57	1,478	observed
1964	36	1,975	observed
1965	38	1,854	observed
1966	32	2,058	observed
1967	28	2,272	observed
1968	23	2,630	observed
1969	13	3,958	observed
1970	27	2,647	observed
1971	26	2,736	observed
1972	25	2,747	observed
1973	22	3,015	observed
1974	18	3,558	observed
1975	20	3,404	observed
1976	25	2,932	observed
1977	30	2,715	observed
1978	22	3,388	observed
1979	30	2,860	observed
1980	32	2,800	observed
1981	39	2,447	observed
1982	43	2,288	observed
1983	32	2,721	observed
1984	42	2,299	observed
1985	34	2,749	observed
1986	30	3,054	observed
1987	29	3,169	observed
1988	38	2,744	observed
1989	37	2,931	observed
1990	36	3,078	observed
1991	30	3,540	observed
1992	30	3,581	observed
1993	32	3,422	observed
1994	16	5,713	observed
1995	22	4,518	observed
1996	20	4,883	observed
1997	11	7,742	observed
1998	18	5,583	observed
1999	12	7,716	observed
2000	13	7,580	observed
2001	14	7,317	observed
2002	18	6,129	observed
2003	5	15,784	observed
2004	6	14,179	observed
2005	11	9,452	observed
2006	16	7,482	observed
2007	14	8,520	observed
2008	7	13,832	observed
2009	12	9,379	observed
2010	16	7,513	observed
2011	13	8,614	observed
2012	12	9,109	observed
2013	9	11,000	observed
2014	14	8,053	observed
2015	12	8,931	observed
2016	6	14,331	observed
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	5	15,088	observed
2021	11	8,978	observed
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	5	15,194	observed
2024	8	11,122	observed
2025	6	13,208	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms7

Wikidata Q18760772CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Russian Wiktionary: JanitaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: JohannaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates7

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Janita

About Janita

Meaning in the sources

Where Janita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Janetta

Janina

Juanita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Janita

About Janita

Meaning in the sources

Where Janita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Janetta

Janina

Juanita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Janita

Meaning in the sources

Where Janita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Janetta

Janina

Juanita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Janita

Meaning in the sources

Where Janita is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Janetta

Janina

Juanita

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page