Jannette

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~4,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 0 5,219 since 1880
Typical age: 56 years, median

Jannette popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1894–2022. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Jannette was used most in 1960, when 121 babies were given the name. The name does not appear in the data until 1894. It reaches the top 1,000 in 13 years of the record.

The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2022.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Jannette?

Roughly 4,200 Jannettes are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 5,219 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Jannette?

Half of living Jannettes are older than 56, half younger. The 1960s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Jannette a late 20th-century name.

Your Jannette

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

How Jannette is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
Spelling	Births in 2025	Share
Janet	61	100%
Jannette this page	0	0%

Names similar to Jannette

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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