Jenet
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jenet has been given to 103 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1981, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Jenet, 1999
1 in 738,000
Jenet over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jenet?
Jenet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 738,000
- 5 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 511,873 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jenet sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jenets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenet was born before 1979 — so the typical Jenet is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 37.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 91
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Jenet 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (10)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jenet
Jenet is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 32.0% against Jenet'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.
Jenet around the world
Where Jenet 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 Australia1960–1960#617in 1960
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jenet by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jenet
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jenet
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.