Anjanette
Feminine · “grace”
The j in Anjanette is doing French work inside an American compound. Read as French it is the zh of measure; read as English it is the j of jam. The name is built from English pieces and spelled with a letter that only makes sense if you assume it is not.
How old is the name Anjanette?
Anjanette first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Anjanette alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 2,400 people named Anjanette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anjanette most popular?
Anjanette peaked in 1971, reaching #616 nationally. See the whole 1971 chart.
Where it comes from
From Jeanette to Anjanette
The story of Anjanette
Compound names of this kind can be read two ways and usually are. Split it after the first syllable and you get Ann and Janette, two standing names joined; take it whole and you get Angela expanded with a French-looking ending. Both readings were live in the middle of the twentieth century when the name appears, and the record does not distinguish. What is certain is the ending: -ette is a genuine French diminutive that English borrowed as a decoration, and by this period it was being attached to almost anything.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace
If the name is Ann and Jeanette joined, both halves descend from the same Hebrew original by different roads and both mean favor. If it was built from an unrelated front, it means nothing.
How the name formed
- Jeanette
- Anjanette
Pronouncing Anjanette
an-juh-NET
Three syllables with the weight at the back. The j is said as an English j by most speakers, though the spelling suggests otherwise.
Nicknames for Anjanette
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 1971276 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #616reached in 1971
- Change vs 2015
- +20.0%6 in 2017, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anjanettes among us
people named Anjanette are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Anjanette sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every part of it is familiar, so the name is read correctly at sight.
- It carries three short forms with quite different characters.
- The stress at the back gives it a lift most names of its length do not have.
- Anjanette, Anjeanette and Angenette are all in the record and will be confused.
- The j invites a French reading that most bearers do not use.
- It reads clearly as a name of the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anjanettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Anjanette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anjanette in 2025?
- Anjanette is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Anjanette with classmates?
- Anjanette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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