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Jeanetta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jeanetta has been given to 5,149 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1961, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Jeanetta, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeanetta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeanetta means

Jeanetta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jeanetta is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,149 girls were recorded with the name Jeanetta between 1882 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1961; its best national rank was #822 in 1936.

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 Jeanetta?

Jeanetta 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeanetta 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeanetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeanettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeanetta was born before 1955 — so the typical Jeanetta is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
16.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,070
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (844).

Is Jeanetta 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 1961 (104)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#822
1936

Spellings of Jeanetta

Jeanetta is not the most common spelling — Jeanette is, with 53.4% against Jeanetta's 1.7%.

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 Jeanetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeanetta was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 61,839 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 9,091
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  3. 3Alabama1 in 20,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

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

Jeanetta around the world

Where Jeanetta 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
    1948–1975
    #675
    in 1975

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

Jeanetta 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
#822
1936
Peak year
1961
104 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeanetta

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

JeannettaJeanelleCarlottaJeannineViolettaJuliettaLaurettaJeannaConcettaJeanineMariettaGeorgettaAnnettaJeanaKenyattaJeannieJeanieMaryettaJeaneneArlettaColettaJeanmarieNicolettaGretta

Names with a curve like Jeanetta

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

ThomasinaMaritaJohnnyErnestinaCarmelitaFeliceKennethEvonneRositaVenitaRomonaArnetta

Sibling names for Jeanetta

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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