Jenette
Jenette was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,934 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Jenette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 41 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,986, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1982, the peak
Jenette peaked in 1982, when 55 girls were given it, #1,931 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #16,986 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,141 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,656 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,785 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,202 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,617 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,263 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,018 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,631 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,105 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 | #8,457 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,505 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,353 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,951 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,791 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,120 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,073 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,288 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,653 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,940 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,928 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,333 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,934 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,002 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,506 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,091 | 28.5 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,367 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,931 | 32.5 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,279 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,823 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,285 | 26.2 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,362 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,439 | 23.5 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,403 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,179 | 26.8 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,973 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,740 | 35.0 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,369 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,082 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,136 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,071 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,663 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,235 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,271 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,224 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,168 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,507 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,488 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,784 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,680 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,254 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,134 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,515 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,021 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,905 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,548 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,149 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,291 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,819 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,153 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,458 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,230 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,572 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,666 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,525 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,054 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,295 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,475 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,593 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,815 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,163 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,037 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,249 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,594 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,029 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,029 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,099 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,993 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,090 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,187 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,528 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,039 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,482 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,961 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,029 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,363 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,782 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,710 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,702 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,659 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,322 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,661 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,209 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,760 | 4.8 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,382 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,187 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,696 | 22.7 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,265 | 15.0 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,076 | 17.1 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,719 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenette, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,934 Americans ever recorded as Jenette. The median Jenette alive today is 51 years old; half are between 41 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 1,881 people named Jenette (1,875 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 74 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 319 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 462 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 89 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Jenette born?
The states with the most babies named Jenette are California, New York and Texas, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 194 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jenette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenette is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 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 Jenette 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 245,089 babies since 1880, Jenette is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 99 babies recorded by SSA was a Jenette (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jenette
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 Jenette and names like it
- Compare Jenette and JeanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenette peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenette since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jenette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.