Nanetta
Nanetta was last recorded in 1979, when 8 babies were given it; 187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nanetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,790, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1958, the peak
Nanetta peaked in 1958, when 14 girls were given it, #3,339 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 | #7,790 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,686 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,176 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,012 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,884 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,275 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,813 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,869 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,292 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,469 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 11 | #4,189 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,455 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,451 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,050 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,028 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,339 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,795 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,177 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,287 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,008 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,893 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,159 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,247 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,863 | 5.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,129 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,346 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nanetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nanetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 151 Americans named Nanetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 58 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 171 people named Nanetta (171 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 23,411 babies since 1880, Nanetta is the third most given (<1% 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 Nanetta
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 Nanetta and names like it
- Compare Nanetta and NanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sNanetta peaked in 1958.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Nanetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nanetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.