Name meaning & stats
January
January (month names origin). 2,170 US babies since 1940, peak 1978.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
month names
In US birth records
Peak year: 1978
2,170 US babies were named January between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named January (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1978)