Jeanette — #2766 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jeanette

The Social Security Administration has registered 163,365 babies named Jeanette between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jeanette currently holds the #2766 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1939, when 2,893 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeanette performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 24,753 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jeanette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 17,646 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeanette in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jeanette 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 163,365 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.