Jennette

Where Jennette comes from

Jennette 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 #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #658
    11 babies named Jennette — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1949
    Jennette Arnold born
    British politician
  5. 1992
    Jennette McCurdy born
    American writer and former actress
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jennette McCurdy · American writer and former actress, born 1992
  • Jennette Arnold · British politician, born 1949

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.