Janette

Where Janette comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Janette.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Janette through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1938
    Janette Scott born
    Film actress
  3. 1953
    Peak, #310
    699 babies named Janette, the most in any year.
  4. 1974
    Janette Husárová born
    Slovak female tennis player
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #509.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Janet.
Namesakes
  • Janette Husárová · Slovak female tennis player, born 1974
  • Janette Scott · Film actress, born 1938
  • Janette Hargin · Swedish alpine skier, born 1977
  • Janette Deacon · South African archaeologist, born 1939
  • Janette Rauch · Swiss actress, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.