Nanette
Nanette is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 319th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1957772 births
- Best rank
- #319in 1956
- Since 1892
- 16,888people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,888 girls have been named Nanette in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 772 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 772 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 34%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nanette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 19 | |
| 1910s | 151 | |
| 1920s | 491 | |
| 1930s | 756 | |
| 1940s | 1,481 | |
| 1950s | 5,396 | |
| 1960s | 5,670 | |
| 1970s | 2,027 | |
| 1980s | 473 | |
| 1990s | 192 | |
| 2000s | 114 | |
| 2010s | 71 | |
| 2020s | 36 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Nanette was the 331st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Nanette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sheliapeak 1959
- Dorindapeak 1957
- Doreenpeak 1956
- Terriepeak 1961
- Merripeak 1963
- Laureenpeak 1958
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Coleenpeak 1959
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.