Jeanet — girls' name
209 babies named Jeanet in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
19% of everyone ever named Jeanet was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Jeanet in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jeanet
The Social Security Administration has registered 209 babies named Jeanet between 1912 and 1999, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jeanet currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeanet performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jeanet shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jeanet in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jeanet 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 209 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.
Jeanet at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jeanet popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1912
- Peak year (1922)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 88 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
209 total births across 88 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 12 births in a single year.
Jeanet by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 40 births that decade — 19% of Jeanet's all-time total
Jeanet decade highlights
- Peak decade 40 births
- Runner-up 33 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Jeanet's strongest decade
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 19% of all-time use.
Jeanet by state
Where Jeanet concentrates geographically — total births since 1912
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 2.4% |
5 of 209 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 2.4% 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, 1912–1999 (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.