Meaning not yet researched.
Jeannette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #173 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #173 in 1916; #5,309 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeannette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,309 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #173.
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Jeannette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #173 in 1916 · most girls in one year: 1,113 (1917).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Jeannette, making it the 5,309th most common girls’ name of the year, up 724 places from #6,033 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 20 girls named Jeannette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #173, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,113, in 1917. For comparison, it was #4,028 in 2015 and #256 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeannette in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 34 babies with the name. In all, 69,300 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,992 babies named Jeannette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 245 US girls were named Jeannette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 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), Jeanne (163,609 babies since 1880) and Janette (32,214 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeannet 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: Jeannet (30).
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 Jeannette 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 | 24 | #5,309 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,033 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,465 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,562 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,089 | — | — |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,686 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,529 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,468 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,592 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1993 | 193 | #974 | — | — |
| 1992 | 214 | #914 | — | — |
| 1991 | 308 | #694 | — | — |
| 1990 | 266 | #770 | — | — |
| 1989 | 311 | #657 | — | — |
| 1988 | 346 | #587 | — | — |
| 1987 | 343 | #579 | — | — |
| 1986 | 425 | #500 | — | — |
| 1985 | 369 | #540 | — | — |
| 1984 | 283 | #627 | — | — |
| 1983 | 327 | #557 | — | — |
| 1982 | 415 | #491 | — | — |
| 1981 | 415 | #493 | — | — |
| 1980 | 474 | #450 | — | — |
| 1979 | 410 | #494 | — | — |
| 1978 | 408 | #479 | — | — |
| 1977 | 460 | #444 | — | — |
| 1976 | 406 | #467 | — | — |
| 1975 | 428 | #452 | — | — |
| 1974 | 542 | #384 | — | — |
| 1973 | 537 | #381 | — | — |
| 1972 | 574 | #374 | — | — |
| 1971 | 717 | #349 | — | — |
| 1970 | 714 | #352 | — | — |
| 1969 | 683 | #342 | 6 | #4,149 |
| 1968 | 632 | #354 | — | — |
| 1967 | 653 | #351 | — | — |
| 1966 | 643 | #358 | — | — |
| 1965 | 697 | #346 | — | — |
| 1964 | 732 | #349 | — | — |
| 1963 | 802 | #334 | — | — |
| 1962 | 908 | #308 | 5 | #4,322 |
| 1961 | 877 | #316 | — | — |
| 1960 | 938 | #305 | — | — |
| 1959 | 938 | #297 | — | — |
| 1958 | 886 | #302 | — | — |
| 1957 | 863 | #314 | — | — |
| 1956 | 902 | #297 | — | — |
| 1955 | 870 | #293 | — | — |
| 1954 | 855 | #291 | — | — |
| 1953 | 911 | #274 | — | — |
| 1952 | 898 | #267 | — | — |
| 1951 | 856 | #268 | — | — |
| 1950 | 884 | #256 | — | — |
| 1949 | 917 | #251 | — | — |
| 1948 | 957 | #240 | — | — |
| 1947 | 994 | #237 | — | — |
| 1946 | 965 | #230 | — | — |
| 1945 | 788 | #236 | — | — |
| 1944 | 931 | #212 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,037 | #203 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,055 | #194 | 6 | #3,381 |
| 1941 | 948 | #198 | — | — |
| 1940 | 1,039 | #182 | 9 | #2,571 |
| 1939 | 1,018 | #184 | — | — |
| 1938 | 1,044 | #186 | — | — |
| 1937 | 1,012 | #189 | — | — |
| 1936 | 955 | #188 | 5 | #3,799 |
| 1935 | 949 | #186 | 6 | #3,441 |
| 1934 | 919 | #195 | — | — |
| 1933 | 860 | #203 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1,080 | #175 | 6 | #3,563 |
| 1931 | 974 | #185 | — | — |
| 1930 | 987 | #196 | 6 | #3,796 |
| 1929 | 929 | #201 | — | — |
| 1928 | 889 | #211 | — | — |
| 1927 | 910 | #209 | — | — |
| 1926 | 920 | #207 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,050 | #195 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,032 | #201 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,081 | #194 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,027 | #197 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,094 | #191 | — | — |
| 1920 | 1,060 | #189 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,068 | #184 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,077 | #185 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,113 | #177 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,082 | #173 | — | — |
| 1915 | 903 | #187 | — | — |
| 1914 | 699 | #189 | — | — |
| 1913 | 570 | #192 | — | — |
| 1912 | 487 | #199 | — | — |
| 1911 | 373 | #192 | — | — |
| 1910 | 347 | #192 | — | — |
| 1909 | 311 | #190 | — | — |
| 1908 | 260 | #209 | — | — |
| 1907 | 235 | #213 | — | — |
| 1906 | 216 | #209 | — | — |
| 1905 | 205 | #218 | — | — |
| 1904 | 212 | #208 | — | — |
| 1903 | 161 | #236 | — | — |
| 1902 | 174 | #228 | — | — |
| 1901 | 167 | #221 | — | — |
| 1900 | 170 | #249 | — | — |
| 1899 | 125 | #252 | — | — |
| 1898 | 144 | #246 | — | — |
| 1897 | 144 | #231 | — | — |
| 1896 | 135 | #236 | — | — |
| 1895 | 150 | #226 | — | — |
| 1894 | 133 | #232 | — | — |
| 1893 | 139 | #220 | — | — |
| 1892 | 122 | #241 | — | — |
| 1891 | 98 | #244 | — | — |
| 1890 | 99 | #251 | — | — |
| 1889 | 92 | #243 | — | — |
| 1888 | 109 | #222 | — | — |
| 1887 | 95 | #213 | — | — |
| 1886 | 75 | #237 | — | — |
| 1885 | 81 | #219 | — | — |
| 1884 | 63 | #241 | — | — |
| 1883 | 53 | #248 | — | — |
| 1882 | 60 | #224 | — | — |
| 1881 | 43 | #241 | — | — |
| 1880 | 34 | #267 | — | — |
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).