Jeanett — girls' name
1,079 babies named Jeanett in U.S. Social Security records since 1903, with the highest year being 1965. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
19% of everyone ever named Jeanett was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Jeanett in 1965 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jeanett
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,079 babies named Jeanett between 1903 and 2006, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jeanett currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeanett performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jeanett shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeanett in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jeanett 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 1,079 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.
Jeanett at a glance
Last recorded 2006Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jeanett popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–1903
- Peak year (1965)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 104 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2006.
1,079 total births across 104 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1965 with 31 births in a single year.
Jeanett by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 208 births that decade — 19% of Jeanett's all-time total
Jeanett decade highlights
- Peak decade 208 births
- Runner-up 144 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Jeanett's strongest decade
208 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 19% of all-time use.
Jeanett by state
Where Jeanett concentrates geographically — total births since 1903
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 59 | 5.5% |
| #2 | Mississippi | | 22 | 2.0% |
| #3 | New York | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #4 | Texas | | 5 | 0.5% |
59 of 1,079 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.5% of nationwide
- Mississippi 2.0% of nationwide
- New York 0.6% of nationwide
- Texas 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.5% 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, 1903–2006 (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.