Nanette
Nanette was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,408 among girls’ names; 16,894 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Nanette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 58 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nanette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nanette is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nanette?
#14,408 among girls’ names, 2025
Nanette entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,408 in 2025.
772 babies in 1957, the peak
Nanette peaked in 1957, when 772 girls were given it, #331 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,408 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,917 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,966 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,868 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,050 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,339 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,669 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,514 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,373 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,463 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,507 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,025 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,115 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,250 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,902 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,004 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,121 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,055 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,099 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,107 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,945 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,613 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,977 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,741 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,987 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,769 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,698 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,365 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,953 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,751 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,634 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,078 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,513 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,142 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,283 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,039 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,043 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,656 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,633 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,388 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 93 | #1,304 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 137 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 118 | #1,045 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 168 | #816 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 170 | #796 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 224 | #667 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 324 | #524 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 364 | #512 | 0.22 |
| 1970 | 340 | #548 | 0.19 |
| 1969 | 351 | #522 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 425 | #466 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 457 | #442 | 0.28 |
| 1966 | 420 | #463 | 0.25 |
| 1965 | 523 | #406 | 0.30 |
| 1964 | 715 | #354 | 0.38 |
| 1963 | 746 | #347 | 0.39 |
| 1962 | 583 | #395 | 0.30 |
| 1961 | 752 | #346 | 0.37 |
| 1960 | 698 | #365 | 0.35 |
| 1959 | 610 | #383 | 0.30 |
| 1958 | 641 | #363 | 0.32 |
| 1957 | 772 | #331 | 0.38 |
| 1956 | 756 | #319 | 0.38 |
| 1955 | 622 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1954 | 396 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1953 | 445 | #403 | 0.24 |
| 1952 | 370 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 420 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 364 | #419 | 0.21 |
| 1949 | 250 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1948 | 195 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1947 | 196 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1946 | 178 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 125 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 117 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 112 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 99 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 125 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 84 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 93 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 105 | #672 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 83 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 60 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 76 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 56 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 76 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 66 | #859 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 59 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 82 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 65 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 70 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 77 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 60 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 73 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,494 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,879 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,202 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,142 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,731 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,499 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nanette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nanette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanette, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 16,894 Americans ever recorded as Nanette. The median Nanette alive today is 65 years old; half are between 58 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 14,369 people named Nanette (14,361 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 517 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,920 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 523 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 196 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 82 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nanette born?
The states with the most babies named Nanette are California, New York and Illinois, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,063 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 1,848 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 999 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 980 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 877 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 851 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 721 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 391 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 368 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 353 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Nanette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nanette is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nanette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 23,354 babies since 1880, Nanette is the most given (72% 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 Nanette
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 Nanette and names like it
- Compare Nanette and NannetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sNanette peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nanette since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Nanette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nanette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.