Jeannette
Jeannette was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,308 among girls’ names; 69,300 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 32,400 Americans named Jeannette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 51 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeannette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeannette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jeannette is “a female given name from French.”
From French Jeannette, from Jeanne + -ette, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
/d͡ʒəˈnɛt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeannette?
#5,308 among girls’ names, 2025
Jeannette fell from #4,027 in 2015 to #5,308 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.7 to 14.9 per million.
1,113 babies in 1917, the peak
Jeannette peaked in 1917, when 1,113 girls were given it, #177 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,308 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,030 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,460 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,557 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,084 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,684 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,596 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,525 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,524 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,467 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #4,027 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,590 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,112 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,397 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,804 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,713 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,975 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,307 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,446 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,199 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,738 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,897 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,746 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,393 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,290 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,465 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,920 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,659 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,173 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,178 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 193 | #972 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 214 | #912 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 308 | #694 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 266 | #769 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 311 | #656 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 346 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 343 | #579 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 425 | #500 | 0.25 |
| 1985 | 369 | #540 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 283 | #627 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 327 | #557 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 415 | #491 | 0.25 |
| 1981 | 415 | #493 | 0.25 |
| 1980 | 474 | #450 | 0.29 |
| 1979 | 410 | #494 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 408 | #479 | 0.27 |
| 1977 | 460 | #444 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 406 | #467 | 0.28 |
| 1975 | 428 | #452 | 0.29 |
| 1974 | 542 | #384 | 0.37 |
| 1973 | 537 | #381 | 0.37 |
| 1972 | 574 | #374 | 0.38 |
| 1971 | 717 | #349 | 0.43 |
| 1970 | 714 | #352 | 0.41 |
| 1969 | 683 | #342 | 0.40 |
| 1968 | 632 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1967 | 653 | #351 | 0.40 |
| 1966 | 643 | #358 | 0.38 |
| 1965 | 697 | #346 | 0.39 |
| 1964 | 732 | #349 | 0.39 |
| 1963 | 802 | #334 | 0.42 |
| 1962 | 908 | #308 | 0.46 |
| 1961 | 877 | #316 | 0.43 |
| 1960 | 938 | #305 | 0.46 |
| 1959 | 938 | #297 | 0.46 |
| 1958 | 886 | #302 | 0.44 |
| 1957 | 863 | #314 | 0.42 |
| 1956 | 902 | #297 | 0.45 |
| 1955 | 870 | #293 | 0.44 |
| 1954 | 855 | #291 | 0.44 |
| 1953 | 911 | #274 | 0.48 |
| 1952 | 898 | #267 | 0.48 |
| 1951 | 856 | #268 | 0.48 |
| 1950 | 884 | #256 | 0.52 |
| 1949 | 917 | #251 | 0.54 |
| 1948 | 957 | #240 | 0.56 |
| 1947 | 994 | #237 | 0.56 |
| 1946 | 965 | #230 | 0.61 |
| 1945 | 788 | #236 | 0.60 |
| 1944 | 931 | #212 | 0.70 |
| 1943 | 1,037 | #203 | 0.74 |
| 1942 | 1,055 | #194 | 0.78 |
| 1941 | 948 | #198 | 0.78 |
| 1940 | 1,039 | #182 | 0.91 |
| 1939 | 1,018 | #184 | 0.93 |
| 1938 | 1,044 | #186 | 0.95 |
| 1937 | 1,012 | #189 | 1.0 |
| 1936 | 955 | #188 | 0.92 |
| 1935 | 949 | #186 | 0.91 |
| 1934 | 919 | #195 | 0.88 |
| 1933 | 860 | #203 | 0.85 |
| 1932 | 1,080 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1931 | 974 | #185 | 0.91 |
| 1930 | 987 | #196 | 0.88 |
| 1929 | 929 | #201 | 0.83 |
| 1928 | 889 | #211 | 0.77 |
| 1927 | 910 | #209 | 0.76 |
| 1926 | 920 | #207 | 0.78 |
| 1925 | 1,050 | #195 | 0.86 |
| 1924 | 1,032 | #201 | 0.83 |
| 1923 | 1,081 | #194 | 0.90 |
| 1922 | 1,027 | #197 | 0.86 |
| 1921 | 1,094 | #191 | 0.89 |
| 1920 | 1,060 | #189 | 0.88 |
| 1919 | 1,068 | #184 | 0.95 |
| 1918 | 1,077 | #185 | 0.93 |
| 1917 | 1,113 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1916 | 1,082 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1915 | 903 | #187 | 0.92 |
| 1914 | 699 | #189 | 0.92 |
| 1913 | 570 | #192 | 0.91 |
| 1912 | 487 | #199 | 0.87 |
| 1911 | 373 | #192 | 0.89 |
| 1910 | 347 | #192 | 0.88 |
| 1909 | 311 | #190 | 0.90 |
| 1908 | 260 | #209 | 0.78 |
| 1907 | 235 | #213 | 0.74 |
| 1906 | 216 | #209 | 0.73 |
| 1905 | 205 | #218 | 0.70 |
| 1904 | 212 | #208 | 0.77 |
| 1903 | 161 | #236 | 0.61 |
| 1902 | 174 | #228 | 0.66 |
| 1901 | 167 | #221 | 0.70 |
| 1900 | 170 | #249 | 0.57 |
| 1899 | 125 | #252 | 0.54 |
| 1898 | 144 | #246 | 0.56 |
| 1897 | 144 | #231 | 0.61 |
| 1896 | 135 | #236 | 0.57 |
| 1895 | 150 | #226 | 0.64 |
| 1894 | 133 | #232 | 0.60 |
| 1893 | 139 | #220 | 0.65 |
| 1892 | 122 | #241 | 0.57 |
| 1891 | 98 | #244 | 0.53 |
| 1890 | 99 | #251 | 0.52 |
| 1889 | 92 | #243 | 0.52 |
| 1888 | 109 | #222 | 0.61 |
| 1887 | 95 | #213 | 0.65 |
| 1886 | 75 | #237 | 0.52 |
| 1885 | 81 | #219 | 0.61 |
| 1884 | 63 | #241 | 0.49 |
| 1883 | 53 | #248 | 0.47 |
| 1882 | 60 | #224 | 0.56 |
| 1881 | 43 | #241 | 0.47 |
| 1880 | 34 | #267 | 0.37 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeannette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeannette has been given almost only to girls: 49 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jeannette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeannette, and how old are they?
32,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 47% of the 69,300 Americans ever recorded as Jeannette. The median Jeannette alive today is 65 years old; half are between 51 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 37,909 people named Jeannette (37,877 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 37,451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5,170 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13,100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 935 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 347 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jeannette born?
The states with the most babies named Jeannette are New York, California and Massachusetts, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7,399 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 6,454 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Massachusetts | 4,567 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 4,025 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 3,529 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 3,500 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 2,536 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 2,277 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 1,996 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 1,426 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jeannette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeannette is most over-represented in New Hampshire: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jeannette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 245,947 babies since 1880, Jeannette is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 99 babies (24%), again the second most given.
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 Jeannette
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 Jeannette and names like it
- Compare Jeannette and JeanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sJeannette peaked in 1917.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeannette since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Jeannette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Jeannette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jeannette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.