Jannah
Feminine · “garden”
Jannah is the garden. It is the Quranic word for paradise, described in the text as gardens beneath which rivers flow — so the name is a place, and a specific one.
How old is the name Jannah?
Jannah first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Jannah is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,500 people named Jannah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jannah most popular?
Jannah peaked in 2024, reaching #1509 nationally. Today it ranks #1518, 9 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From jannah to Jannah
The story of Jannah
Jannah is used as a given name across the Muslim world, where naming from Quranic vocabulary is long established. It appears in British records earlier than American ones, following South Asian and Middle Eastern settlement, and enters the American registers in the 2000s. It is in current use and rising.
Meaning
garden, paradise
From the Arabic jannah, 'garden', from a root meaning to cover or conceal — a garden being a place hidden by its own foliage. It is the standard Quranic word for paradise, which is described throughout as a garden. The word is ordinary Arabic and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- jannah
- Jannah
Related forms: جنة · Janna · Cennet
Pronouncing Jannah
JAN-uh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic gives the double n a longer hold that English does not reproduce.
Nicknames for Jannah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 2024143 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1509reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −2.1%140 in 2025, from 143
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jannah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- جنة in Arabic — transliteration
- Janna in English — spelling variant
- Cennet in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Pennsylvania, New York. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Jannahs among us
people named Jannah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 11,480 born in 2025 was named Jannah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jannah
- #1518
- Jannah on the 2025 chart
- #576
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jannah went to 140 girls in 2025, but Jana, Janna and Jaana and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 418, which makes it the 576th most-given girls’ name of the year — 942 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 3,845 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 11,480 for Jannah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vania test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jannah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vania climbed just as high around 2007, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vania's path sketches the road Jannah is walking now.
Jannah is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jannah is headed
Jannah looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 24% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jannah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jannah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The garden meaning is concrete, transparent and carries real weight in its own tradition.
- The hidden-by-foliage etymology is a genuinely good detail.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- It is a homophone of the unrelated European Janna and Jana, which will cause assumptions.
- The double n is not audible in English, so the spelling must be given.
- It reads as specifically Islamic, which some families will weigh either way.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jannahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Jannah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jannah?
- Jannah is one of 5 recorded spellings. Jana is the more common one — 181 births in 2025 against 140 for Jannah.
- How popular is the name Jannah in 2025?
- Jannah ranks #1518 among US girl names in 2025, with 140 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jannah?
- About 1 in every 11,480 US girls born in 2025 was named Jannah — 140 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jannah with classmates?
- Jannah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jannah
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US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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