Given name
Jenette
“God is gracious”
Jenette is a variant of Janet. In Scottish use, Janet carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jenette 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 1899. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jenette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,934
- 0 boys · 1,934 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 55 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 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,881 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.
Jenette’s family of names
Jenette has a related form in Janet. In English usage, Jenette 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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jenette
- Jenette GoldsteinAmerican actress and businesswomanborn 1960
- Jenette KahnDC Comics publisher and editorborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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