Given name
Janete
Janete is a given name, possibly from French. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Janete through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 81
- 0 boys · 81 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 512 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Janete’s family of names
Janete may belong to the same name family as JANNETE. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Janete
- Janete ClairBrazilian writer (1925–1983)
- Janete SantosAngolan handball playerborn 1991
- Janete PietáBrazilian politicianborn 1946
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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