Nanette — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nanette

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,888 babies named Nanette between 1892 and 2023, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nanette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 772 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nanette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 5,670 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Nanette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,063 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Nanette in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nanette 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 16,888 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.