Meaning not yet researched.
Janette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #310 in 1953.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #310 in 1953; #5,150 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Janette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,150 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1953, at #310.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Janette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #310 in 1953 · most girls in one year: 699 (1953).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Janette, making it the 5,150th most common girls’ name of the year, down 332 places from #4,818 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 28 girls named Janette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #310, reached in 1953. That year also had the most girls given the name: 699. For comparison, it was #3,155 in 2015 and #326 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Janette in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 32,214 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 6,097 babies named Janette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 371 US girls were named Janette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janet (558,291 babies since 1880), Jeanette (163,977 babies since 1880), Jeannette (69,300 babies since 1880) and Janelle (56,967 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Shanette, Joanette and Jaynette are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shanette (826), Joanette (367), Jaynette (17), Zanette (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Janette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,322 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,811 | — | — |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2003 | 168 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 2002 | 174 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2001 | 200 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2000 | 188 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1999 | 227 | #929 | — | — |
| 1998 | 214 | #959 | — | — |
| 1997 | 220 | #913 | — | — |
| 1996 | 230 | #864 | — | — |
| 1995 | 211 | #898 | — | — |
| 1994 | 262 | #778 | — | — |
| 1993 | 301 | #710 | — | — |
| 1992 | 316 | #686 | — | — |
| 1991 | 321 | #672 | — | — |
| 1990 | 355 | #633 | 5 | #8,685 |
| 1989 | 347 | #613 | 5 | #8,437 |
| 1988 | 315 | #631 | 5 | #7,777 |
| 1987 | 312 | #620 | 5 | #7,452 |
| 1986 | 325 | #593 | 10 | #4,270 |
| 1985 | 280 | #653 | — | — |
| 1984 | 263 | #663 | — | — |
| 1983 | 325 | #559 | — | — |
| 1982 | 385 | #518 | 5 | #6,780 |
| 1981 | 330 | #564 | — | — |
| 1980 | 314 | #589 | — | — |
| 1979 | 325 | #565 | — | — |
| 1978 | 299 | #575 | — | — |
| 1977 | 328 | #544 | — | — |
| 1976 | 313 | #550 | — | — |
| 1975 | 359 | #500 | — | — |
| 1974 | 341 | #509 | — | — |
| 1973 | 359 | #490 | — | — |
| 1972 | 363 | #491 | — | — |
| 1971 | 424 | #471 | 7 | #4,148 |
| 1970 | 436 | #471 | — | — |
| 1969 | 479 | #441 | — | — |
| 1968 | 451 | #452 | — | — |
| 1967 | 453 | #443 | — | — |
| 1966 | 501 | #417 | — | — |
| 1965 | 484 | #427 | — | — |
| 1964 | 586 | #403 | — | — |
| 1963 | 541 | #414 | — | — |
| 1962 | 589 | #391 | — | — |
| 1961 | 577 | #405 | — | — |
| 1960 | 560 | #404 | — | — |
| 1959 | 536 | #408 | — | — |
| 1958 | 547 | #391 | — | — |
| 1957 | 642 | #358 | — | — |
| 1956 | 618 | #350 | — | — |
| 1955 | 665 | #330 | — | — |
| 1954 | 695 | #319 | — | — |
| 1953 | 699 | #310 | — | — |
| 1952 | 545 | #351 | — | — |
| 1951 | 599 | #324 | — | — |
| 1950 | 551 | #326 | — | — |
| 1949 | 502 | #346 | — | — |
| 1948 | 415 | #390 | — | — |
| 1947 | 412 | #394 | — | — |
| 1946 | 382 | #388 | — | — |
| 1945 | 301 | #412 | — | — |
| 1944 | 315 | #402 | — | — |
| 1943 | 343 | #395 | — | — |
| 1942 | 343 | #385 | — | — |
| 1941 | 287 | #402 | — | — |
| 1940 | 318 | #369 | — | — |
| 1939 | 308 | #376 | — | — |
| 1938 | 309 | #376 | — | — |
| 1937 | 296 | #375 | — | — |
| 1936 | 281 | #380 | — | — |
| 1935 | 262 | #399 | — | — |
| 1934 | 278 | #384 | — | — |
| 1933 | 288 | #379 | — | — |
| 1932 | 256 | #408 | — | — |
| 1931 | 250 | #409 | — | — |
| 1930 | 195 | #480 | — | — |
| 1929 | 163 | #531 | — | — |
| 1928 | 151 | #575 | — | — |
| 1927 | 171 | #542 | — | — |
| 1926 | 167 | #542 | — | — |
| 1925 | 183 | #527 | — | — |
| 1924 | 158 | #585 | — | — |
| 1923 | 148 | #597 | — | — |
| 1922 | 168 | #549 | — | — |
| 1921 | 160 | #568 | — | — |
| 1920 | 142 | #603 | — | — |
| 1919 | 122 | #632 | — | — |
| 1918 | 139 | #604 | — | — |
| 1917 | 99 | #692 | — | — |
| 1916 | 96 | #703 | — | — |
| 1915 | 113 | #617 | — | — |
| 1914 | 77 | #663 | — | — |
| 1913 | 52 | #727 | — | — |
| 1912 | 49 | #719 | — | — |
| 1911 | 32 | #771 | — | — |
| 1910 | 26 | #850 | — | — |
| 1909 | 26 | #804 | — | — |
| 1908 | 27 | #751 | — | — |
| 1907 | 22 | #806 | — | — |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1905 | 24 | #750 | — | — |
| 1904 | 22 | #764 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #847 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #753 | — | — |
| 1900 | 19 | #873 | — | — |
| 1899 | 17 | #799 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1897 | 13 | #914 | — | — |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1895 | 15 | #843 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1892 | 20 | #651 | — | — |
| 1891 | 10 | #915 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #852 | — | — |
| 1889 | 13 | #740 | — | — |
| 1888 | 15 | #676 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #861 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #874 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #971 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #602 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #790 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).