Fewer than five US girls were named Jannet in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,744, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #9,754 in 2015 and #2,602 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jannet in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 7 babies. In all, 2,319 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 581 babies named Jannet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33 US girls were named Jannet; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 10.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janet (558,291 babies since 1880), Jannette (5,219 babies since 1880), Janeth (4,792 babies since 1880) and Janett (3,542 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.