Janett
Janett was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,448 among girls’ names; 3,542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Janett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 32 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Janett?
#12,448 among girls’ names, 2025
Janett fell from #12,303 in 2015 to #12,448 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
71 babies in 1991, the peak
Janett peaked in 1991, when 71 girls were given it, #1,962 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,448 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,622 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,317 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,257 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,933 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,105 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,303 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,363 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,861 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,444 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,687 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,310 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,976 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,434 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,779 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,619 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,628 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,318 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,974 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,210 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,383 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,106 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,658 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,078 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,479 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,168 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,635 | 26.7 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,296 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,496 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,488 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,962 | 37.9 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,443 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,582 | 23.9 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,278 | 27.5 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,451 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,432 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,454 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,873 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,442 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,464 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,015 | 31.2 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,253 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,316 | 25.5 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,589 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,862 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,442 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,073 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,944 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,425 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,774 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,625 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,355 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,418 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,270 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,584 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,965 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,012 | 19.3 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,928 | 20.1 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,658 | 24.9 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,868 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,772 | 20.8 |
| 1960 | 54 | #1,510 | 26.7 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,561 | 24.2 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,486 | 25.8 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,498 | 24.9 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,507 | 24.9 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,281 | 31.7 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,291 | 30.4 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,445 | 24.5 |
| 1952 | 63 | #1,200 | 34.0 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,400 | 25.0 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,278 | 30.4 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,240 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,335 | 28.3 |
| 1947 | 61 | #1,156 | 34.4 |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,169 | 34.4 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,198 | 33.7 |
| 1944 | 54 | #1,063 | 40.7 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,172 | 34.4 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,094 | 38.5 |
| 1941 | 48 | #1,057 | 39.7 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,562 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,387 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,326 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,107 | 39.5 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,253 | 31.7 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,109 | 38.1 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,330 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,212 | 34.7 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,992 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,521 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,248 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,048 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,050 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,206 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,405 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,327 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,953 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,815 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,753 | 20.0 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,035 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,316 | 13.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,320 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,324 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,375 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,564 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,000 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,063 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,435 | 12.8 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,067 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janett, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 3,542 Americans ever recorded as Janett. The median Janett alive today is 47 years old; half are between 32 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 3,297 people named Janett (3,289 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,828 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Janett rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 210 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 743 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 433 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 719 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 475 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 72 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Janett born?
The states with the most babies named Janett are California, Texas and New York, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 581 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 421 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Janett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Janett is most over-represented in California: since 1911 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Janett with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Janett?
Janett is a less common spelling of Janet: SSA has recorded 3,542 Janett and 558,291 Janet since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 566,897 babies since 1880, Janett is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 154 babies (4.5%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Janett
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Janett and names like it
- Compare Janett and JanetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJanett peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janett since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Janett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.