Janete — girls' name
81 babies named Janete in U.S. Social Security records since 1940, with the highest year being 1987. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Janete was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Janete in 1987 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Janete
The Social Security Administration has registered 81 babies named Janete between 1940 and 2008, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janete currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Janete performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 32 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Janete shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Janete in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Janete in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 81 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Janete at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Janete popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1940
- Peak year (1987)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 69 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
81 total births across 69 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1987 with 8 births in a single year.
Janete by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 32 births that decade — 40% of Janete's all-time total
Janete decade highlights
- Peak decade 32 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Janete's strongest decade
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Janete by state
Where Janete concentrates geographically — total births since 1940
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 6.2% |
5 of 81 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1940–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.