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Jennetta

About 555 American babies have been named Jennetta since 1897, most of them around 1940. It has not appeared in the national data since 1996. About 320 Jennettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jennetta

By the numbers

Total US births
555
Estimated living today
320
Median age today
58
Peak year
1940
Best rank
2,297th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1897

How old the living Jennettas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 555 babies given the name since 1897, about 320 are alive — 58 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 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.

Where Jennetta is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1940

The most popular girls’ names the year Jennetta peaked:

All the names of 1940

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.