# Jennette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jennette/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,522 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,522 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 13 | 7,037 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,134 |
| 1999 | 15 | 6,645 |
| 2000 | 8 | 11,193 |
| 2001 | 11 | 9,015 |
| 2002 | 9 | 10,588 |
| 2003 | 5 | 16,874 |
| 2004 | 8 | 12,087 |
| 2005 | 7 | 13,629 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,209 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,796 |
| 2010 | 5 | 18,220 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,685 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,455 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,729 |

## People named Jennette

- Jennette McCurdy, American writer and former actress (born 1992)

## 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.