girls:
5.2k births since 1894
#2329 (59th percentile)
overall:
5.2k births since 1894
#3780 (51st percentile)
The name Jannette is the #3,780 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,219 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 51.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,329 (59.3% percentile) for all time with 5,219 births since 1894.
Jannette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (first recorded for girls in 1894). Birth data for Jannette is available in 110 out of the 129 years between 1894 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Jannette reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #657) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 59 births per million (ranked 14.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jannette".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jannette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Jannette is pronounced as ja-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-NEHT, at 32.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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