Fewer than five US girls were named Jannette in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #896, reached in 1951. The most girls given the name in a single year was 121, in 1960. For comparison, it was #12,312 in 2015 and #961 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jannette in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 5,219 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 960 babies named Jannette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29 US girls were named Jannette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janette (32,214 babies since 1880), Janett (3,542 babies since 1880) and Jannet (2,319 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jannetta are summarised on this page.
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.