girls:
32.1k births since 1880
#784 (86th percentile)
boys:
42 births since 1971
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
32.2k births since 1880
#1417 (82nd percentile)
The name Janette is the #1,417 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,159 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #784 (86.3% percentile) for all time with 32,117 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1971.
Janette has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1971 for boys). Birth data for Janette is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Janette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janette reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 57.9% percentile (ranked #293) with 362 births per million. The name was most common in 1953, with 362 births per million (ranked 57.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janette ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janette reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #700) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janette".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Janette", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 31 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Janet" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Janet..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Janette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Janette is pronounced as juh-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ja-NEHT, at 29.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 N EH1 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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