Jennette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jennette

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,522 babies named Jennette between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jennette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 80 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jennette performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 630 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Jennette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Jennette in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jennette 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 3,522 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.