Jeanette Girl
How popular is Jeanette?
#2,387 girl name in 2025
75 baby girls were named Jeanette in the US in 2025, making it the 2387th most popular girl name.
Jeanette popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,387 for girls (▲ 388 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 75 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-23% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,025 in 2015, #2,549 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1939 (2,893 girls) |
| Highest rank | #82 in 1939 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jeanette counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jeanette family of names ranked #1,555 for girls in 2025 (#1,803 the year before), with 99 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanette | 75 | 76% |
| Jeannette | 24 | 24% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jeanette is most popular
Babies named Jeanette per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Arizona: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (13 girls)
Jeanette by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 767 | #200 |
| 1890s | 1,503 | #207 |
| 1900s | 2,438 | #185 |
| 1910s | 11,134 | #131 |
| 1920s | 19,783 | #125 |
| 1930s | 24,753 | #82 |
| 1940s | 24,727 | #90 |
| 1950s | 23,984 | #131 |
| 1960s | 22,086 | #157 |
| 1970s | 12,970 | #186 |
| 1980s | 9,940 | #232 |
| 1990s | 6,050 | #264 |
| 2000s | 1,937 | #785 |
| 2010s | 965 | #1,728 |
| 2020s | 403 | #2,387 |
Girl names about as popular as Jeanette
Questions
- Is Jeanette a boy or girl name?
- Jeanette is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jeanette were girls.
- How popular is the name Jeanette?
- 75 baby girls were named Jeanette in the US in 2025, making it the 2387th most popular girl name.
- When was Jeanette most popular?
- Jeanette peaked in 1939, when 2,893 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #82 in 1939.
- How many people are named Jeanette?
- 163,977 babies have been named Jeanette in the US since 1880. We estimate about 93,399 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 65.
- Where is Jeanette most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jeanette was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.