Janetta
Janetta was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 3,321 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Janetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 41 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Janetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Janetta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Janetta is “a female given name.”
From Jane + -etta. Compare Janet.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Janetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,703, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
70 babies in 1954, the peak
Janetta peaked in 1954, when 70 girls were given it, #1,200 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,703 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,319 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,210 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,011 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,263 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,220 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,279 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,364 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,767 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,601 | 9.1 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #10,697 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,094 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,946 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,732 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,725 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,861 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,071 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,920 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,977 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,510 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,753 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,610 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,914 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,857 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,667 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,652 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,739 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,902 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,907 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,054 | 20.6 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,391 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,178 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,423 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,710 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,125 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,357 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,505 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,874 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,736 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 40 | #2,421 | 23.6 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,678 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,165 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,985 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,973 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,230 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,851 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,074 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,459 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,921 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,071 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,919 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,966 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,878 | 26.1 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,819 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 61 | #1,420 | 36.9 |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,704 | 26.0 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,725 | 24.4 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,601 | 26.9 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,531 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,563 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,585 | 25.3 |
| 1960 | 65 | #1,368 | 32.1 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,771 | 19.3 |
| 1958 | 68 | #1,284 | 33.8 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,281 | 33.3 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,493 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,297 | 31.2 |
| 1954 | 70 | #1,200 | 36.0 |
| 1953 | 65 | #1,201 | 34.6 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,358 | 27.5 |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,194 | 33.9 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,482 | 22.8 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,380 | 26.3 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,608 | 20.0 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,587 | 20.3 |
| 1946 | 34 | #1,520 | 21.6 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,385 | 26.0 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,414 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 50 | #1,146 | 35.8 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,146 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,347 | 27.3 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,282 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,251 | 31.9 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,104 | 39.0 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,473 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,216 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,063 | 41.0 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,244 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,422 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,910 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,061 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,904 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,370 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,614 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,789 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,520 | 11.8 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,149 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,898 | 17.6 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,915 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,922 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,236 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,920 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,717 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,147 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,479 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,565 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,603 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,187 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,003 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,184 | 9.0 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,757 | 20.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,907 | 18.9 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,492 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,707 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Janetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Janetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Janetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Janetta, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 3,321 Americans ever recorded as Janetta. The median Janetta alive today is 56 years old; half are between 41 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,313 people named Janetta (2,309 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,568 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 190 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 780 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 664 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 498 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 189 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 65 |
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 Janetta born?
The states with the most babies named Janetta are California, Oklahoma and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 96 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 57 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Janetta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 42,996 babies since 1880, Janetta is the third most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 31 babies recorded by SSA was a Janetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Janetta
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 Janetta and names like it
- Compare Janetta and JanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJanetta peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Janetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Janetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Janetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.