Jeanett
Feminine · “little Jeanne”
Jeanett drops the final letter from a French diminutive, which is the kind of small American economy that turns up all over the record. The name has two very good namesakes: the first woman elected to the American Congress, and a ship that was crushed by Arctic ice and then, in pieces, proved something nobody believed.
How old is the name Jeanett?
Jeanett first appears in US birth records in 1903 — 122 years ago. The typical Jeanett alive today was born around 1959, making them about 66 years old. About 700 people named Jeanett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeanett most popular?
Jeanett peaked in 1903, reaching #1792 nationally. See the whole 1903 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hebrew Yohanan, and its French feminine Jeanne to Jeanett
The story of Jeanett
Jeannette Rankin was elected from Montana in 1916, four years before American women could vote nationally, and on her fourth day in the House she voted against entering the First World War. She was not re-elected. Twenty-four years later she came back, and on the day after Pearl Harbor she was the only member of either chamber to vote against declaring war on Japan — a vote so unpopular she had to shelter in a phone booth from the crowd afterwards. She never regretted either one, and she was still leading marches against a different war in her late eighties.
Meaning
little Jeanne
The base is the French feminine of John, and the ending is the French diminutive that English has borrowed on hundreds of words. In French the final e is required and silent; in American English it is silent and therefore, to a certain kind of practical speller, optional. Dropping it changes nothing that can be heard, which is why the record carries this form alongside the full one for a whole generation.
How the name formed
- Hebrew Yohanan, and its French feminine Jeanne
- the French diminutive ending produces Jeannette
- an Arctic ship of that name is crushed by ice in 1881
- a Montana congresswoman makes it famous in 1916
- Jeanett appears in American records without its final letter
Related forms: Jeannette · Jeanne · Janet
Pronouncing Jeanett
juh-NET
Two syllables with the stress at the back, following the French ending. The missing final letter is silent in every version of the name and its absence changes nothing.
Nicknames for Jeanett
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
- 1903
- Most girls named
- 195926 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1792reached in 1903
- Change vs 2001
- +40.0%7 in 2006, 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.
Jeanett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeannette in French — spelling variant
- Jeanne in French — related form
- Janet in English — related form
Jeanetts among us
people named Jeanett 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
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Fashion outlook
Jeanett 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
- Jean and Nettie are both waiting inside it and belong to different centuries.
- The sound is entirely familiar and needs no explanation in English or French.
- It has two namesakes of real substance and neither of them dominates the name.
- The final letter will be restored by nearly everyone who writes it, and by every autocorrect.
- Janet, Jeanette and Jeannette are all commoner and will be substituted in speech.
- It is firmly a name of the first half of the last century.
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- How many Jeanetts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jeanett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Jeanett is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jeanett with classmates?
- Jeanett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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