Jeanette
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Jeanette is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 163,440 girls against 537 boys since 1880. See Jeanette as a boy name
Jeanette is the little Jeanne of French, a classic American girl's name. It sang its way onto movie screens with one of Hollywood's great duet partnerships, and a Pennsylvania glass town carries it.
How old is the name Jeanette?
Jeanette was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Jeanette alive today was born around 1948, making them about 77 years old. About 94,000 people named Jeanette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeanette most popular?
Jeanette peaked in 1939, reaching #82 nationally. Today it ranks #2387, 2,305 places below that high. See the whole 1939 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Jeanette
The story of Jeanette
Jeanette MacDonald, a soprano from Philadelphia, starred with the baritone Nelson Eddy in a run of operetta films, Naughty Marietta and Rose-Marie among them, and audiences called them America's Singing Sweethearts. In western Pennsylvania, a glassmaker founded a factory town and named it Jeannette after his wife, and for decades it made glass for the whole country. The name is recorded for a very few boys, but it is a woman's name everywhere.
Meaning
God is gracious, through Jeanne
Jeanette is a French diminutive of Jeanne, the feminine of Jean, John, from Hebrew Yohanan, God is gracious.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Jeanne
- Jeannette
- Jeanette
Related forms: Jeannette · Juanita · Janet
Pronouncing Jeanette
juh-NET
Stress on the second syllable.
Nicknames for Jeanette
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 19392,893 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #82reached in 1939
- Change vs 2022
- +7.1%75 in 2025, from 70
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.
Jeanette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeannette in French — same name
- Juanita in Spanish — related form
- Janet in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Jeanettes among us
people named Jeanette are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 21,430 born in 2025 was named Jeanette
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeanette
- #2387
- Jeanette on the 2025 chart
- #861
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeanette went to 75 girls in 2025, but Jeannette is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 99, which makes it the 861st most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,526 places above the chart.
- Jeanette75
- Jeannette24
About 1 girl in 16,235 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 21,430 for Jeanette itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Opal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeanette's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Opal climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Opal's path sketches the road Jeanette is walking now.
Jeanette sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jeanette is headed
Jeanette should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jeanette beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeanette in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a clear meaning and long history.
- It is familiar without being common among babies now.
- People will write Jeannette or Janette.
- Many associate it with an older generation of women.
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Feminine · #2387 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jeanettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 94,000 people named Jeanette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeanette?
- Jeanette is the most-used spelling in US records — 75 of the 99 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jeannette.
- How popular is the name Jeanette in 2025?
- Jeanette ranks #2387 among US girl names in 2025, with 75 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeanette?
- About 1 in every 21,430 US girls born in 2025 was named Jeanette — 75 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeanette with classmates?
- Jeanette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jeanette
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