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Joette

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Joette has been given to 2,000 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1954, with 130 recorded.

Babies named Joette, 1991

1 in 487,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joette means

Joette is a given name.

The naming story behind Joette

Wikidata records Joette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q124412660, 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, 2,000 girls were recorded with the name Joette between 1931 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 130 in 1954; its best national rank was #823 in 1954.

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 Joette?

Joette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 487,000
8 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
337,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joette 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 1991 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 337,298 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joette was born before 1956 — so the typical Joette is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,632
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1950s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (859).

Is Joette 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 1954 (130)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#823
1954

Spellings of Joette

Joette is not the most common spelling — Yvette is, with 26.5% against Joette's 0.83%.

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 Joette is used

Across 1910–2025, Joette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 148,549 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Joette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joette in other languages

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

JoletteJosetteJovette

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

Joette 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
#823
1954
Peak year
1954
130 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
2,000
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joette

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

JoettaJoellaJoelyJoeleneAnetteJoeannJoellenJoelOdetteJoelleCozetteJoelynEvetteJoellyCosetteBretteBabetteElietteJoellLinetteRosetteJoeyJoellynElliette

Names with a curve like Joette

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

SheilahJannBrindaGwendaCatheyDremaPameliaMerrieCheryllPamellaJayeCinda

Sibling names for Joette

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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