Jeannette
Jeannette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 173rd, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19171,113 births
- Best rank
- #173in 1916
- Since 1880
- 69,226people given the name
The story in the numbers
69,226 girls have been named Jeannette in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 1,113 births — 0.10% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 1,113 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 114 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jeannette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 705 | |
| 1890s | 1,289 | |
| 1900s | 2,111 | |
| 1910s | 7,719 | |
| 1920s | 9,992 | |
| 1930s | 9,798 | |
| 1940s | 9,631 | |
| 1950s | 8,863 | |
| 1960s | 7,564 | |
| 1970s | 5,196 | |
| 1980s | 3,708 | |
| 1990s | 1,648 | |
| 2000s | 547 | |
| 2010s | 350 | |
| 2020s | 105 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Jeannette was the 177th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Jeannette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Celestinepeak 1952
- Mariettapeak 1921
- Lavoniapeak 1923
- Dorcaspeak 1923
- Helenepeak 1918
- Freidapeak 1947
- Sylviapeak 1937
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.