Jenette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jenette

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,934 babies named Jenette between 1899 and 2017, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jenette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 55 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jenette performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 392 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Jenette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 194 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jenette in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jenette 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 1,934 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.