Meaning not yet researched.
Jeanette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 75 in 2025. Its best rank was #82 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #82 in 1939; #2,391 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeanette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,391 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #82.
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Jeanette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 75 girls in 2025. Peak: #82 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 2,893 (1939).
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Jeanette, making it the 2,391st most common girls’ name of the year, up 396 places from #2,787 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 61 girls named Jeanette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #82, reached in 1939. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,893. For comparison, it was #2,032 in 2015 and #131 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeanette in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 55 babies with the name. In all, 163,977 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 24,870 babies named Jeanette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 717 US girls were named Jeanette; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jeanette ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,529 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Janet (558,291 babies since 1880), Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880), Jeannette (69,300 babies since 1880) and Janette (32,214 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jenette, Jeanett and Jeannett are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Janet, Jean, Jessie and Nettie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jenette (1,934), Jeanett (1,079), Jeannett (677), Jennett (595), Jeanet (209), Jenett (46), Jeannete (37), Jeaneth (35), Jeanete (11), Jinette (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,529 | #1,557 |
| New York | 8 | #1,585 | #1,686 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,009 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,507 | #1,981 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2015 | 97 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 2010 | 120 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 2006 | 173 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 2005 | 167 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2003 | 220 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2002 | 222 | #993 | — | — |
| 2001 | 275 | #835 | — | — |
| 2000 | 292 | #785 | — | — |
| 1999 | 295 | #756 | — | — |
| 1998 | 309 | #715 | — | — |
| 1997 | 389 | #590 | — | — |
| 1996 | 452 | #522 | — | — |
| 1995 | 480 | #510 | 5 | #9,485 |
| 1994 | 559 | #457 | — | — |
| 1993 | 678 | #378 | — | — |
| 1992 | 847 | #323 | 7 | #7,001 |
| 1991 | 1,052 | #265 | 9 | #5,713 |
| 1990 | 989 | #281 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,012 | #264 | 11 | #4,638 |
| 1988 | 976 | #263 | 5 | #7,814 |
| 1987 | 1,065 | #243 | 12 | #3,842 |
| 1986 | 1,111 | #234 | 12 | #3,738 |
| 1985 | 935 | #268 | 5 | #7,010 |
| 1984 | 871 | #275 | 5 | #6,768 |
| 1983 | 918 | #260 | 9 | #4,302 |
| 1982 | 938 | #264 | — | — |
| 1981 | 1,088 | #232 | 5 | #6,728 |
| 1980 | 1,026 | #250 | 7 | #5,190 |
| 1979 | 1,007 | #249 | 7 | #5,079 |
| 1978 | 1,028 | #238 | 6 | #5,380 |
| 1977 | 1,065 | #235 | 6 | #5,443 |
| 1976 | 1,127 | #217 | 5 | #5,990 |
| 1975 | 1,160 | #212 | 5 | #5,853 |
| 1974 | 1,326 | #191 | 11 | #3,218 |
| 1973 | 1,362 | #190 | 8 | #3,866 |
| 1972 | 1,494 | #191 | 6 | #4,689 |
| 1971 | 1,677 | #186 | 9 | #3,495 |
| 1970 | 1,724 | #190 | 7 | #4,026 |
| 1969 | 1,686 | #189 | 10 | #2,950 |
| 1968 | 1,752 | #183 | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1967 | 1,850 | #172 | 7 | #3,392 |
| 1966 | 1,963 | #172 | 8 | #3,103 |
| 1965 | 2,070 | #169 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 1964 | 2,380 | #163 | 9 | #2,953 |
| 1963 | 2,568 | #158 | 5 | #4,316 |
| 1962 | 2,611 | #157 | 8 | #3,164 |
| 1961 | 2,559 | #163 | 11 | #2,622 |
| 1960 | 2,647 | #159 | — | — |
| 1959 | 2,243 | #171 | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1958 | 2,098 | #179 | 7 | #3,406 |
| 1957 | 2,297 | #167 | 6 | #3,752 |
| 1956 | 2,338 | #160 | 7 | #3,355 |
| 1955 | 2,376 | #153 | — | — |
| 1954 | 2,488 | #148 | — | — |
| 1953 | 2,608 | #139 | 7 | #3,257 |
| 1952 | 2,580 | #137 | — | — |
| 1951 | 2,543 | #132 | 9 | #2,756 |
| 1950 | 2,413 | #131 | 5 | #3,935 |
| 1949 | 2,511 | #129 | 6 | #3,505 |
| 1948 | 2,331 | #129 | 8 | #2,889 |
| 1947 | 2,600 | #125 | 5 | #3,995 |
| 1946 | 2,412 | #121 | 7 | #3,030 |
| 1945 | 2,053 | #122 | 7 | #2,864 |
| 1944 | 2,255 | #117 | 10 | #2,382 |
| 1943 | 2,554 | #110 | 10 | #2,475 |
| 1942 | 2,688 | #104 | 12 | #2,202 |
| 1941 | 2,596 | #98 | 8 | #2,762 |
| 1940 | 2,727 | #90 | 9 | #2,570 |
| 1939 | 2,893 | #82 | 9 | #2,533 |
| 1938 | 2,802 | #91 | 9 | #2,555 |
| 1937 | 2,741 | #90 | 15 | #1,869 |
| 1936 | 2,552 | #94 | 13 | #2,008 |
| 1935 | 2,290 | #104 | 18 | #1,685 |
| 1934 | 2,293 | #106 | 12 | #2,184 |
| 1933 | 2,223 | #103 | 12 | #2,152 |
| 1932 | 2,291 | #106 | 10 | #2,541 |
| 1931 | 2,234 | #105 | 9 | #2,763 |
| 1930 | 2,434 | #106 | 10 | #2,690 |
| 1929 | 1,839 | #131 | 8 | #3,109 |
| 1928 | 1,944 | #126 | 9 | #2,951 |
| 1927 | 1,970 | #131 | 8 | #3,295 |
| 1926 | 1,871 | #136 | 8 | #3,258 |
| 1925 | 1,920 | #137 | 7 | #3,569 |
| 1924 | 2,066 | #134 | — | — |
| 1923 | 2,029 | #131 | — | — |
| 1922 | 2,005 | #128 | — | — |
| 1921 | 2,096 | #125 | 10 | #2,891 |
| 1920 | 2,043 | #126 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,767 | #135 | 6 | #3,941 |
| 1918 | 1,774 | #131 | 5 | #4,475 |
| 1917 | 1,638 | #132 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,522 | #135 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,273 | #148 | — | — |
| 1914 | 977 | #150 | — | — |
| 1913 | 734 | #159 | — | — |
| 1912 | 623 | #166 | — | — |
| 1911 | 444 | #169 | — | — |
| 1910 | 382 | #179 | — | — |
| 1909 | 317 | #188 | — | — |
| 1908 | 304 | #186 | — | — |
| 1907 | 294 | #186 | — | — |
| 1906 | 269 | #185 | — | — |
| 1905 | 243 | #195 | — | — |
| 1904 | 221 | #203 | — | — |
| 1903 | 198 | #215 | — | — |
| 1902 | 198 | #212 | — | — |
| 1901 | 161 | #227 | — | — |
| 1900 | 233 | #206 | — | — |
| 1899 | 162 | #216 | — | — |
| 1898 | 191 | #209 | — | — |
| 1897 | 158 | #216 | — | — |
| 1896 | 172 | #210 | — | — |
| 1895 | 167 | #208 | — | — |
| 1894 | 152 | #214 | — | — |
| 1893 | 142 | #216 | — | — |
| 1892 | 129 | #227 | — | — |
| 1891 | 101 | #242 | — | — |
| 1890 | 129 | #214 | — | — |
| 1889 | 106 | #226 | — | — |
| 1888 | 126 | #201 | — | — |
| 1887 | 85 | #225 | — | — |
| 1886 | 83 | #219 | — | — |
| 1885 | 76 | #228 | — | — |
| 1884 | 73 | #221 | — | — |
| 1883 | 63 | #227 | — | — |
| 1882 | 64 | #210 | — | — |
| 1881 | 36 | #270 | — | — |
| 1880 | 55 | #207 | — | — |
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).