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Jennette

Girls' name

Form of Jeannette

Jennette has been given to 3,522 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 80 recorded.

Babies named Jennette, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jennette: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jeannette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jennette means

Jennette is a form of Jeannette.

Origin, language, and formation

Jennette is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeannette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,522 girls were recorded with the name Jennette between 1880 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1981; its best national rank was #675 in 1885.

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 Jennette?

Jennette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jennette 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jennette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jennettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jennette was born before 1962 — so the typical Jennette is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (630).

Is Jennette 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 1981 (80)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#675
1885

Spellings of Jennette

Jennette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 34.2% against Jennette's 0.71%.

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 Jennette is used

Across 1910–2025, Jennette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 159,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Jennette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jennette around the world

Where Jennette 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
    1947–1979
    #627
    in 1979

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

Notable people named Jennette

People whose public names include Jennette, 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.

Jennette 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
#675
1885
Peak year
1981
80 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
3,522
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jennette

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

JenetteJennyferJenessaJenesisJenifferJennicaJenevieveJenelleJennahJensenJeniseBrigetteVioletteEllietteJennalynJenineLissetteJenavieveJenicaColletteBabetteJenneferCosetteLinette

Names with a curve like Jennette

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

ThomasinaJohnettaTonyElbaJoelJanettaKennethDouglasThomasAlethiaGenieJenell

Sibling names for Jennette

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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