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Jannette

Girls' name

Variant of Janet

Jannette has been given to 5,219 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1960, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Jannette, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jannette: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Janet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jannette means

Jannette is a variant of Janet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jannette is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒæn.ɪt/ and /d͡ʒə.ˈnɛt/ for Jannette.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Janet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,219 girls were recorded with the name Jannette between 1894 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 121 in 1960; its best national rank was #895 in 1951.

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 Jannette?

Jannette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jannette 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jannette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jannettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jannette was born before 1963 — so the typical Jannette is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,950
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1950s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (960).

Is Jannette 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 1960 (121)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#895
1951

Spellings of Jannette

Jannette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 31.4% against Jannette's 0.97%.

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 Jannette is used

Across 1910–2025, Jannette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 51,147 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 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. Jannette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jannette around the world

Where Jannette 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.

  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #497
    in 1975
  • Ireland
    1968–1971
    #466
    in 1971
  • France
    1937–2017
    #7,439
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1944–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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

Jannette in other languages

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

JanetteJanneteJannettJannettaJannettje

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

Jannette 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
#895
1951
Peak year
1960
121 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
5,219
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jannette

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

JanetteJanieceBrigetteVioletteJannelleJanellyJanethLissetteJaniahJanuaryColletteJaniyahJanellaJanayaJanessaBrigitteJanettJaninaScarletteCharletteLinetteJannahJanasiaJosette

Names with a curve like Jannette

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

EvonneJohnettaRositaMimiLesleeJoellenCarleenKarleneKathleneSherilynCherrieTonie

Sibling names for Jannette

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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