Jannett
Jannett was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,026 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jannett?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,976, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1991, the peak
Jannett peaked in 1991, when 25 girls were given it, #4,110 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,976 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,913 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,723 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,179 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,302 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,062 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,615 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,799 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,385 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,802 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 13 | #7,426 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,607 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,608 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,422 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,386 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,284 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,770 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,030 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,110 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,944 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,732 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,133 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,544 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,609 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,939 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,588 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,547 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,327 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,071 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,002 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,927 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,118 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,750 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,725 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,742 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,469 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,737 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,907 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,232 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,562 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,683 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,230 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,145 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,472 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,771 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,041 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,679 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,883 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,382 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,936 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,516 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,441 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,440 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,418 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,429 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,330 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,176 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,537 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,736 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,602 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,236 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,643 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,818 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,946 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,819 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,053 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,764 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,253 | 11.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,637 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,011 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,499 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,830 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,529 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,286 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,025 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,129 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,663 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,823 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,535 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,214 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,673 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,199 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,659 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,707 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,154 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,182 | 4.3 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,005 | 9.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,263 | 15.0 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,078 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jannett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannett, and how old are they?
An estimated 783 Americans named Jannett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 37 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Jannett (918 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 838 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jannett rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Jannett born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 103 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jannett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jannett is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 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 Jannett 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 Jannett?
Jannett is a less common spelling of Janet: SSA has recorded 1,026 Jannett and 558,291 Janet since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 566,644 babies since 1880, Jannett is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 140 babies recorded by SSA was a Jannett (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 Jannett
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 Jannett and names like it
- Compare Jannett and JanetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJannett peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jannett since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jannett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jannett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.