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Jannet

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jannet has been given to 2,319 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1990, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Jannet, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jannet: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jannet means

Jannet is a given name.

The naming story behind Jannet

Wikidata records Jannet as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q21148041, 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, 2,319 girls were recorded with the name Jannet between 1921 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,740 in 1990.

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 Jannet?

Jannet 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jannet 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jannet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jannets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jannet was born before 1990 — so the typical Jannet is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,118
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (581).

Is Jannet 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (84)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,740
1990

Spellings of Jannet

Jannet is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 29.3% against Jannet's 0.12%.

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 Jannet is used

Across 1910–2025, Jannet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 47,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 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. Jannet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jannet around the world

Where Jannet 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.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1971–1971
    #466
    in 1971
  • France
    2006–2022
    #5,254
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jannet in other languages

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

JanetJannettJannetjeJannetonJannetjen

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

Jannet 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
#1,740
1990
Peak year
1990
84 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,319
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jannet

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

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Names with a curve like Jannet

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

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Sibling names for Jannet

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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