Jannie

Where Jannie comes from

Jannie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #322
    142 babies named Jannie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    Jannie de Groot born
    Dutch swimmer
  4. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,625.
  5. 1982
    Jannie du Plessis born
    South African rugby union footballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jannie du Plessis · South African rugby union footballer, born 1982
  • Jannie de Groot · Dutch swimmer, 1930–2011
  • Jannie de Beer · South African rugby union footballer, born 1971
  • Jannie Blackwell · American politician, born 1945
  • Jannie van Eyck-Vos · Dutch athlete, 1936–2020

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.