Janele
Janele is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:Hannelore Janele, Austrian swimmer Janele Hyer-Spencer, American politician
- English
Meaning & Origin of Janele
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Janele is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:Hannelore Janele, Austrian swimmer Janele Hyer-Spencer, American politician
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Janele
American parents first put Janele on the record books as a baby girl name in 1956, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1978, when 14 Janeles were born — ranking #4,679 that year. About 34% of every Janele on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Janele last appeared in the published SSA data in 2008, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 256 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Janele
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Names that sound like Janele
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About the name Janele
Janele is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1956 and has accumulated 256 births in the dataset. Janele's peak popularity came in 1978 when it ranked #4,679. Use the chart and map above to compare Janele's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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