In 2025, 7 US girls were named Janett, making it the 12,452nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,825 places from #10,627 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 9 girls named Janett in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,057, reached in 1941. The most girls given the name in a single year was 71, in 1991. For comparison, it was #12,308 in 2015 and #1,279 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janett in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 7 babies. In all, 3,542 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 529 babies named Janett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 44 US girls were named Janett; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janet (558,291 babies since 1880), Janette (32,214 babies since 1880), Janetta (3,321 babies since 1880) and Jannette (5,219 babies since 1880).