Girl

Jennette

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
—
under 5 girls
Peak
#675
in 1885
1950
#1,417
rank

Jennette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #675 in 1885.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #675 in 1885. No US babies were recorded with the name Jennette in 2025.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #675 in 1885.

Babies in 2025
0
Since 1880
3,522
Years on record
125

Babies named Jennette, every year since 1880

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Girls

Jennette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #675 in 1885 · most girls in one year: 80 (1981).

About the name Jennette

Fewer than five US girls were named Jennette in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #675, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 80, in 1981. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,417 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Jennette in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 3,522 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 630 babies named Jennette.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5 US girls were named Jennette; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 5.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeanette (163,977 babies since 1880) and Jeannette (69,300 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jenneth are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Jenneth (41).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Jennette in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20185#16,729——
20146#15,455——
20118#12,685——
20105#18,220——
20085#18,796——
20078#13,209——
20057#13,629——
20048#12,087——
20035#16,874——
20029#10,588——
200111#9,015——
20008#11,193——
199915#6,645——
19986#13,134——
199713#7,037——
199612#7,330——
199517#5,539——
199412#7,306——
199311#7,745——
199233#3,364——
199127#3,865——
199031#3,466——
198924#4,054——
198820#4,378——
198742#2,454——
198645#2,283——
198553#2,029——
198455#1,911——
198358#1,822——
198271#1,627——
198180#1,507——
198066#1,712——
197969#1,632——
197867#1,604——
197753#1,886——
197672#1,451——
197566#1,534——
197463#1,535——
197354#1,673——
197265#1,478——
197160#1,588——
197061#1,575——
196960#1,533——
196838#1,951——
196753#1,545——
196650#1,592——
196546#1,659——
196437#1,960——
196346#1,696——
196241#1,798——
196146#1,683——
196039#1,821——
195935#1,899——
195832#1,961——
195739#1,735——
195643#1,623——
195534#1,824——
195443#1,547——
195350#1,382——
195228#1,906——
195140#1,491——
195042#1,417——
194935#1,575——
194839#1,478——
194743#1,422——
194648#1,249——
194534#1,387——
194443#1,210——
194323#1,811——
194235#1,374——
194126#1,551——
194024#1,611——
193937#1,206——
193841#1,135——
193717#1,956——
193623#1,568——
193527#1,428——
193426#1,458——
193323#1,571——
193227#1,464——
193122#1,654——
193018#1,980——
192924#1,616——
192823#1,751——
192726#1,643——
192633#1,397——
192522#1,868——
192413#2,735——
192314#2,530——
192222#1,862——
192127#1,642——
192031#1,456——
191932#1,382——
191832#1,369——
191734#1,251——
191620#1,762——
191524#1,497——
191422#1,361——
191318#1,381——
191217#1,326——
191112#1,412——
191013#1,293——
190912#1,248——
19086#1,968——
19078#1,568——
19057#1,608——
19046#1,762——
190315#910——
19028#1,379——
19018#1,272——
19008#1,501——
18988#1,310——
18979#1,119——
189612#974——
189515#844——
189411#975——
18936#1,350——
189216#744——
18908#1,050——
18896#1,205——
18886#1,206——
18876#1,083——
18866#1,033——
188511#675——
18806#791——

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).