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Janetta

Girls' name

Form of Janet

Janetta has been given to 3,321 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1954, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Janetta, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Janetta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Janet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Janetta means

Janetta is a form of Janet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Janetta is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒə.ˈnɛt.ə/ for Janetta.

Origin, language, and formation

Janetta is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,321 girls were recorded with the name Janetta between 1895 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,063 in 1935.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Janetta?

Janetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Janetta 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Janetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Janettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Janetta was born before 1961 — so the typical Janetta is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,331
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 17.3% of all recorded uses (573).

Is Janetta 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 1954 (70)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,063
1935

Spellings of Janetta

Janetta is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 62.5% against Janetta's 0.37%.

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 Janetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Janetta was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 145,728 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Janetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Janetta around the world

Where Janetta 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
    1946–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Notable people named Janetta

People whose public names include Janetta, 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.

Janetta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Janetta. Linked forms have their own page here.

JanettJanitaJanellaJuanitaZanettaGianettaJannetta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Janetta 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,063
1935
Peak year
1954
70 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,321
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Janetta

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

JanieceJanellyJanuaryJanellaJannettaJanettJaninaJanayaJannahJanasiaJaniahJanethJanylaJanylahJanelyJaniseJanitaJaniyahJanayahJanessaJaneeJannatJanaiArletta

Names with a curve like Janetta

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

ThomasinaLaraeEvonneElbaDennisTonieCarlettaJayFeliceJacqualineKathleneVanita

Sibling names for Janetta

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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