Jannetta
Jannetta was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 324 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jannetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,093, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1956, the peak
Jannetta peaked in 1956, when 15 girls were given it, #3,112 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,093 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,948 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,782 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,372 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,583 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,012 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,364 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,874 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,599 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,743 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | #7,176 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,299 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,826 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,651 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,603 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,951 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,870 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,192 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,086 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,177 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,545 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,151 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,680 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,378 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,849 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,098 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,688 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,112 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,213 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,883 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,776 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,175 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,528 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,416 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,373 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,317 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,801 | 5.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,335 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,747 | 5.8 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,010 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,640 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,276 | 5.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,174 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,215 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,641 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jannetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 246 Americans named Jannetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 51 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 280 people named Jannetta (280 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 265 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jannetta?
Jannetta is a less common spelling of Janetta: SSA has recorded 324 Jannetta and 3,321 Janetta since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 41,136 babies since 1880, Jannetta is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Jannetta (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 Jannetta
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 Jannetta and names like it
- Compare Jannetta and JanettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJannetta peaked in 1956.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Jannetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jannetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.