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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Jan

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#15,898

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

5

All-time births

54,531

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
3,201 births
Best rank
#131
in 1954
First recorded
1911
#1,860 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1956
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
108 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19563,201#136Peak
  2. 19542,993#131
  3. 19572,991#140
  4. 19552,768#138
  5. 19582,631#153

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #131 in 1954 · peak births 3,201 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 29% boys■ 71% girls

22,403 boys · 54,531 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Jan has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.