Jennet
Jennet was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 166 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennet?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,836, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1975, the peak
Jennet peaked in 1975, when 9 girls were given it, #6,146 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #15,836 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,558 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,442 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,607 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,657 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,928 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,599 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,561 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,560 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,841 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #8,890 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,146 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,614 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,191 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,048 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,973 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,654 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,477 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,314 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,978 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,669 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,252 | 4.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,946 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,994 | 5.5 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,070 | 5.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,308 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,225 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,646 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennet has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennet, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Jennet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 43 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Jennet (503 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jennet rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,829 babies since 1880, Jennet is the fifth most given (5.9% of them).
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.
More about Jennet and names like it
- Compare Jennet and JeanettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJennet peaked in 1975.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Jennet.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jennet alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.