Jeanette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of Jeannette, in the 1920s and 30s associated particularly with the singer and film star Jeanette MacDonald (1902-65)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 46 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/dʒəˈnɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeanette is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 619(measured from records)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 251as Jennet
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 405as Janet
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jeanette itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #159 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 606 (measured from records)
- 1 in 619 (inferred from the name graph)
429,159 named Janet, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Janet in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more and Jennet in TM Turkmenistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant spelling of Jeannette, in the 1920s and 30s associated particularly with the singer and film star Jeanette MacDonald (1902-65).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jeanette, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jeanette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #71 | 429,159as Janet | 1 in 775 | 429K | Janet | 606 |
| NG Nigeria | #114 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | — | Janet | 103 |
| GB United Kingdom | #54 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | 5 | Janet | 309 |
| PH Philippines | #109 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Janet | 137 |
| EG Egypt | #474 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Janet | 45 |
| CA Canada | #66 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 571 | 2 | Janet | 288 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #112 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 251 | — | Jennet | 18 |
| SE Sweden | #109 | 16,479 | 1 in 619 | 16K | Jeanette | 108 |
| IE Ireland | #75 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | — | Janet | 101 |
| NZ New Zealand | #63 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 499 | 17 | Janet | 141 |
429,159 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jeanette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
North American form of French Jeanet, a pet form of Jean, French form of John.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Jeanette (m.fl. former) är ett franskt namn, en diminutivform (se Inledning) av Jeanne (→ Johanna). I den rikssvenska almanackan 29 maj och i den finlandssvenska 15 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Pet form of jeanne. Also: Jeannette.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Danish, a female given name derived from French Jeannette, popular in the 1960s and the 1970s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name, a popular Swedish spelling of the French Jeannette
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jennie Jeromeb. 1854USnot in their usual nameAmerican-born British mother of Winston Churchill (1854–1921)
- Jeanette MacDonaldb. 1903USAmerican singer and actress (1903-1965)
- Jeanette Nolanb. 1911USAmerican actress (1911–1998)
- Kiri Te Kanawab. 1944NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand opera singer
- Jeanette Wintersonb. 1959GBEnglish writer
- Jeanette Hainb. 1969DEGerman actress and screen writer
- Jeanette J. Eppsb. 1970USAmerican aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut (born 1970)
- Carina Dahlb. 1985NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer
- AJ Leeb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and author
- Missy Franklinb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)84 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 99K | #556 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16K | #264 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 9.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 89 | #556 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 75 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1987 | 11 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2020 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1990 | 3 | #615 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jeanette mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Jeannette, in the 1920s and 30s associated particularly with the singer and film star Jeanette MacDonald (1902-65). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Jeanette?
- In the etymology graph, Jane, Janet and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jeanne.
- How do you pronounce Jeanette?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒəˈnɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jeanette a male or female name?
- Jeanette is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- In which country does Jeanette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 429 thousand people named Janet, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jeanette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jeanette is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 619 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jeanette?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,479 people named Jeanette, about 1 in 619 residents.
- How common is Jeanette compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jeanette is the 71st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeanetteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jeanette” — the 71st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.