# Janette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/janette/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Jaz |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 32,214 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 42 / 32,172 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 83 | 2,265 |
| 2012 | 78 | 2,383 |
| 2013 | 72 | 2,494 |
| 2014 | 60 | 2,861 |
| 2015 | 53 | 3,155 |
| 2016 | 54 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 46 | 3,410 |
| 2018 | 43 | 3,583 |
| 2019 | 35 | 4,104 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4,811 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,839 |
| 2022 | 33 | 4,322 |
| 2023 | 41 | 3,734 |
| 2024 | 28 | 4,818 |
| 2025 | 25 | 5,150 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 7 | 4,148 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,780 |
| 1986 | 10 | 4,270 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,452 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,777 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,437 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,685 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |

## People named Janette

- Janette Scott, Film actress
- Janette Oke, Canadian writer
- Stephanie J. Block, American actress and singer
- Janet Steinbeck, Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.