Given name
Joette
“God will add”
Joette is a variant of Jo. In English use, Jo carries the interpretation “God will add.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Joette is a variant of Jo. In English use, Jo carries the interpretation “God will add.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Joette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,000
- 0 boys · 2,000 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 130 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 8 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 130 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,727 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.
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.
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