Jennette
The girl's name Jennette has been in the national records since 1880, with 3,522 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 2,300 Jennettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jennette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,522
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 1,504th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Jennettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,522 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,300 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 620 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 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 Jennettes
- Jennette McCurdy (born 1992)American writer and former actress
People named Jennette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jennette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jennette is most concentrated in California (4.0×), Mississippi (3.0×), South Carolina (2.5×), Michigan (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Jennette peaked:
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Jennette against another name
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.