Jannette

Where Jannette comes from

The dictionaries list Jannette as a given name — a female given name, variant of Janet — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,485 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Peak, #891
    103 babies named Jannette — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    Jannette Beuving born
    Dutch politician
  4. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,936.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Janet.
Namesakes
  • Jannette Beuving · Dutch politician, born 1965

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.