Jeanette
The girl's name Jeanette has been in the national records since 1880, with 163,977 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,387th. About 91,000 Jeanettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jeanette boys named Jeanette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 163,977
- Estimated living today
- 91,000
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1939
- Best rank
- 82nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,387th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 163,440 / 537
How old the living Jeanettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 163,977 babies given the name since 1880, about 91,000 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 42,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jeanettes
- Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)English writer
- Jeanette Biedermann (born 1981)German singer and actress
- Jeanette Jerome (1851–1921)American-born British mother of Winston Churchill
- Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965)American singer and actress
- Jeanette J. Epps (born 1970)American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut
- Jeanette Nolan (1911–1998)American actress
- Jeanette (born 1951)Spanish singer
- Jeanette Ottesen (born 1987)Danish swimmer
People named Jeanette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeanette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeanette is most concentrated in North Dakota (1.8×), Wisconsin (1.6×), South Dakota (1.5×), Minnesota (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1939
The most popular girls’ names the year Jeanette peaked:
Jeanette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Jeanette | 3,993 | 23rd |
| New Zealand girls | Jeanette | 900 | 63rd |
| Ireland girls | Jeanette | 360 | 189th |
| France girls | Jeanette | 305 | 874th |
| Scotland girls | Jeanette | 100 | 225th |
| England and Wales girls | Jeanette | 81 | 1,914th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jeanette among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Jeanette | 4,152 | 8,450 |
| Finland girls | Jeanette | 383 | 717 |
| the Netherlands boys | Jeanette | — | 83 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jeanette lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 533 women called Jeanette were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Jeanette | 6 | 0.075 | 840 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jeanette | 38 | 0.069 | 1,228 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jeanette | 49 | 0.048 | 1,374 |
| Málaga | Jeanette | 43 | 0.047 | 1,225 |
| Palmas, Las | Jeanette | 27 | 0.046 | 1,819 |
| Granada | Jeanette | 15 | 0.031 | 1,387 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jeanette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.