Jeanette
Jeanette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 61 births. Its best rank was 82nd, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 610.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19392,893 births
- Best rank
- #82in 1939
- Since 1880
- 163,365people given the name
The story in the numbers
163,365 girls have been named Jeanette in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 2,893 births — 0.26% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 61 births in 2024, against 2,893 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1930s alone account for 15%. It has spent 123 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jeanette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 767 | |
| 1890s | 1,503 | |
| 1900s | 2,438 | |
| 1910s | 11,134 | |
| 1920s | 19,783 | |
| 1930s | 24,753 | |
| 1940s | 24,728 | |
| 1950s | 23,984 | |
| 1960s | 22,086 | |
| 1970s | 12,970 | |
| 1980s | 9,941 | |
| 1990s | 6,050 | |
| 2000s | 1,936 | |
| 2010s | 965 | |
| 2020s | 327 |
In 1939, its biggest year
Jeanette was the 82nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1939 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1939.
Names that rose and fell with Jeanette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Edwinapeak 1943
- Annpeak 1957
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Kathernpeak 1954
- Twilapeak 1960
- Delorapeak 1917
- Jonniepeak 1947
- Sylviapeak 1937
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.