Fewer than five US girls were named Janetta in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,063, reached in 1935. The most girls given the name in a single year was 70, in 1954. For comparison, it was #15,284 in 2015 and #1,483 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janetta in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 3,321 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 573 babies named Janetta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 43 US girls were named Janetta; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 10.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Juanita (208,675 babies since 1880) and Janett (3,542 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Janella, Gianetta and Janetha are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.