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Janete

Girls' name

Form of Janet

Janete has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1987, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Janete, 2008

1 in 786,000

Janete 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janete: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Janet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janete means

Janete is a form of Janet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Janete is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 girls were recorded with the name Janete between 1940 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,070 in 1940.

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 Janete?

Janete had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janete 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janete. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janetes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janete was born before 1989 — so the typical Janete is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
75
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Janete 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 1987 (8)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,070
1940

Spellings of Janete

Janete is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 29.5% against Janete's <0.01%.

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 Janete is used

Across 1910–2025, Janete was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Janete has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janete around the world

Where Janete 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.

  • France
    1977–1977
    #2,767
    in 1977
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Janete 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
#4,070
1940
Peak year
1987
8 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
81
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Janete

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

JanneteJanoraJanariJanhviJanelieJanakiJanilaJanovaJanaviJanaviaJanoviaJanatJanyraJanaraJanaiahJananiJanevaJaneraJanovahJanythJanniaJanariaJanannJaneliz

Sibling names for Janete

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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