How Many People Are Named Jannette?

4,068

people named Jannette are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 84,017 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,219 babies named Jannette in Social Security records from 1894 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,251

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,397

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Peak Year

1960

121 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JAN-Ι™t, jΙ™-NET
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of JANET.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jannette in English. Counting Jannette and these spellings together, about 516,130 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Jannette in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Jannette alive today is about 54 years old, and 46% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 39 and 68 in 2025.

Under 30 444
10.9%
30 to 59 1,862
45.8%
60 and over 1,762
43.3%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Jannette first appears in the records in 1894 and was given most often in 1960, to 121 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1894 to 2022

πŸ† Rank History

Jannette has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #895, in 1951.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#895 (1951)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,026 in the 1950s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Jannette alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jannette were born in California than in any other state: about 829 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jannette was given 4 times as often in South Carolina, 3.6 times in California and 2.4 times in Texas.

California 829
Texas 358
New York 237
Florida 90
South Carolina 84
Illinois 73
North Carolina 61
Michigan 40
Ohio 33
New Jersey 32
Washington 29
Georgia 28
Alabama 25
Arkansas 12
Missouri 11
Pennsylvania 10
Utah 8
Oklahoma 6
Tennessee 6
Louisiana 4
Virginia 4

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