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Nannette

Girls' name

Form of Nanette

Nannette has been given to 6,273 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1963, with 323 recorded.

Babies named Nannette, 2013

1 in 729,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nannette: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nanette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nannette means

Nannette is a form of Nanette.

Origin, language, and formation

Nannette is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nanette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,273 girls were recorded with the name Nannette between 1889 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 323 in 1963; its best national rank was #539 in 1963.

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 Nannette?

Nannette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nannette 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nannette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nannettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nannette was born before 1959 — so the typical Nannette is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,546
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (2,034).

Is Nannette 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 1963 (323)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#539
1963

Spellings of Nannette

Nannette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 47.3% against Nannette's 1.8%.

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 Nannette is used

Across 1910–2025, Nannette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 43,213 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 25,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 25,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 25,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 33,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 33,333

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

Nannette around the world

Where Nannette 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1945–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Nannette

People whose public names include Nannette, 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.

Nannette 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
#539
1963
Peak year
1963
323 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
6,273
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nannette

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

NanetteVioletteBrigetteLissetteColletteBrigitteJosetteScarletteLynnetteArletteHarrietteCharletteLinetteLisetteEllietteDanetteNandiniBabetteLizetteJannetteCosetteEvetteGeorgetteMargarette

Names with a curve like Nannette

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

PennieMaryjoFondaPatricaDorindaGerriLaureenLoreenBarbraRomonaGeriJoellen

Sibling names for Nannette

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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