Given name & surname
Jannette
“God is gracious”
Jannette is a variant of Janet. In Scottish use, Janet carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jannette is a variant of Janet. In Scottish use, Janet carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jannette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,219
- 0 boys · 5,219 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 121 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 121 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,126 as a first name in 2020; 173 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jannette’s family of names
In English usage, Jannette has a related form in Janet. In English usage, Jannette has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jeannette.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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