Jennetta
Jennetta was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 555 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,458, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1940, the peak
Jennetta peaked in 1940, when 13 girls were given it, #2,353 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,458 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,955 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,126 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,318 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,716 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,728 | 7.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,929 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,600 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,562 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,073 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 9 | #6,936 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,221 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,146 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,250 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,479 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,745 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,189 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,928 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,430 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,927 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,321 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,165 | 4.8 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,002 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,760 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,157 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,157 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,058 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,936 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,789 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,695 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,564 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,478 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,580 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,180 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,928 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,180 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,632 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,486 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,233 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,850 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,526 | 5.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,867 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,939 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,903 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,934 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,353 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,594 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,285 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,572 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,935 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,494 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,849 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,047 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,053 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,248 | 8.0 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,866 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,263 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,169 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,033 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,745 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,899 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,400 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,998 | 9.1 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,791 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,322 | 14.3 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,929 | 19.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,067 | 16.7 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,658 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 318 Americans named Jennetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 47 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 364 people named Jennetta (361 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 246,599 babies since 1880, Jennetta is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 99 babies recorded by SSA was a Jennetta (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 Jennetta
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 Jennetta and names like it
- Compare Jennetta and JeanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJennetta peaked in 1940.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Jennetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jennetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.