girls:
163.3k births since 1880
#239 (96th percentile)
boys:
537 births since 1918
#4049 (12th percentile)
overall:
163.8k births since 1880
#457 (94th percentile)
The name Jeanette is the #457 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 163,841 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #239 (95.8% percentile) for all time with 163,304 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,049 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 537 births since 1918.
Jeanette has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys).
The name Jeanette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jeanette reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 86.0% percentile (ranked #82) with 2,551 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 2,551 births per million (ranked 86.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1989, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jeanette ranks #890 for girls (6.0% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jeanette reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #503) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeanette".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jeanette", 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 9 different pronunciations for the name Jeanette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.6% confident that Jeanette is pronounced as juh-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jee-NEHT, at 27.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
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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