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Johnette

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Johnette has been given to 2,004 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1949, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Johnette, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johnette: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Johnette means

Johnette is a given name.

The naming story behind Johnette

Wikidata records Johnette as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98907067, 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, 2,004 girls were recorded with the name Johnette between 1914 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1949; its best national rank was #1,195 in 1949.

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 Johnette?

Johnette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johnette 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johnette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johnettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johnette was born before 1961 — so the typical Johnette is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,492
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (455).

Is Johnette 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 1949 (58)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,195
1949

Spellings of Johnette

Johnette is not the most common spelling — Jeanette is, with 70.8% against Johnette's 0.87%.

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 Johnette is used

Across 1910–2025, Johnette was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 278,332 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Mississippi1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Johnette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Johnette around the world

Where Johnette 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
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Notable people named Johnette

People whose public names include Johnette, 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.

Johnette in other languages

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

JonetteJohanetteJohannette

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

Johnette 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
#1,195
1949
Peak year
1949
58 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
2,004
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Johnette

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

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Names with a curve like Johnette

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

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Sibling names for Johnette

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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