Jeannett — girls' name
677 babies named Jeannett in U.S. Social Security records since 1900, with the highest year being 1945. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
17% of everyone ever named Jeannett was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Jeannett in 1945 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jeannett
The Social Security Administration has registered 677 babies named Jeannett between 1900 and 1993, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jeannett currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1945, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeannett performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jeannett shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeannett in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jeannett 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 677 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.
Jeannett at a glance
Last recorded 1993Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jeannett popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–1900
- Peak year (1945)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 94 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1993.
677 total births across 94 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1945 with 17 births in a single year.
Jeannett by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 113 births that decade — 17% of Jeannett's all-time total
Jeannett decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 104 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Jeannett's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 17% of all-time use.
Jeannett by state
Where Jeannett concentrates geographically — total births since 1900
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 11 | 1.6% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.7% |
11 of 677 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.6% 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, 1900–1993 (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.