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Anjanette

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Anjanette has been given to 2,563 babies in the U.S. since 1963. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 276 recorded.

Babies named Anjanette, 2017

1 in 596,000

Anjanette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anjanette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anjanette means

Anjanette is a given name.

The naming story behind Anjanette

Wikidata records Anjanette as a given name. The entity identifier is Q21500934, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,563 girls were recorded with the name Anjanette between 1963 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 276 in 1971; its best national rank was #616 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Anjanette?

Anjanette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anjanette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anjanette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anjanettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anjanette was born before 1972 — so the typical Anjanette is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,563
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (1,424).

Is Anjanette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (276)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#616
1971

Spellings of Anjanette

Anjanette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 73.8% against Anjanette's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anjanette is used

Across 1910–2025, Anjanette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 98,511 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 50,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 100,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anjanette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anjanette around the world

Where Anjanette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1968–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Anjanette

People whose public names include Anjanette, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anjanette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#616
1971
Peak year
1971
276 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
2,563
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anjanette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Anjanette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anjanette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anjanette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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