Jennett
Jennett was last recorded in 1992, when 8 babies were given it; 595 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennett?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,869, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1920, the peak
Jennett peaked in 1920, when 17 girls were given it, #2,214 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | #9,869 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,984 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,226 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,608 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,059 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,658 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,808 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,090 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,521 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,072 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #8,891 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,478 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,744 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,788 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,263 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,014 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,204 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,919 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,329 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,637 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,507 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,692 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,554 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,057 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,294 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,853 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,674 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,618 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,409 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,165 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,831 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,631 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,738 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,232 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,337 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,525 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,254 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,522 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,139 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,340 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,933 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,997 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,995 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,820 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,628 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,967 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,602 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,718 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,666 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,765 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,530 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,955 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,415 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,797 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,030 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,827 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,785 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,513 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,559 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,214 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,104 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,377 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,481 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,761 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,003 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,383 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,421 | 8.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,863 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,589 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,079 | 17.3 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,502 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,696 | 22.7 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,046 | 42.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennett, and how old are they?
An estimated 282 Americans named Jennett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 49 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 357 people named Jennett (357 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 323 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jennett 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, Jennett is the third most given (21% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jennett
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 Jennett and names like it
- Compare Jennett and JeanettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJennett peaked in 1920.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennett since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Jennett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jennett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.