Jane
Jane places #221 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The peak was 1947, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Jane carries
Jane · Hebrew
“grace of the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Jane’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Jane, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Jane since 1880
Jane peaked in 1947 at #36; #221 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Jane is most common
Among the states, Jane takes its largest share in Wyoming, 0.74% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with Utah and District of Columbia next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Jane
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Joseph
#29 in 2025 · Hebrew
James
#6 in 2025 · Hebrew
David
#35 in 2025 · Hebrew
John
#23 in 2025 · Hebrew
Michael
#21 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with J · Hebrew names · all names
About Jane
Where does Jane rank right now?
Jane places #221 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Jane?
“grace of the Lord” is the meaning our source sets down, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Jane?
Joseph, James and David sit nearest to Jane on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Jane’s free Name Kit
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