Feminine dossier · first seen 1951

January

Name: SSA baby-name counts for January
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 95.7% from peak

Peak era

1978

Peak rank proxy

257

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1951Peak 19782024

Peak year

1978

Decline from peak

95.7%

2024

All-time

2,160

January once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1978, when 257 girls were named January.

In 2024, only 11 girls were given the name.

Down 95.7% from its peak.

All told, about 2,160 Americans have been named January and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1951.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 95.7% from peak

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