Nanette
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Nanette is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 9.6Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 11Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 390 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Nanette, 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)Nanette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Nanette | 70 |
| US United States | — | 14,369 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Nanette | 390 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 3 | Nanette | 125 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Nanette | 100 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Nanette | 31 |
| IE Ireland | #507 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Nanette | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | #745 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 12 | Nanette | 31 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nanette | 9 |
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). 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)Nanette is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: elaboration of NAN , with the addition of the French feminine diminutive suffix - ette .
as a word
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)- Nanette Fabrayb. 1920USAmerican actress, singer and dancer (1920-2018)
- Nanette Newmanb. 1934GBBritish actress
- Nanette Barragánb. 1976USU.S. Representative from California
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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Nanette?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Nancy and Anna are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ann and Anne.
- Is Nanette a male or female name?
- Nanette is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Nanette?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Nanette in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nanette. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nanette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,369 people named Nanette in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Nanette compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Nanette is the 507th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nanette?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nanetteThe 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, “Nanette” — the 507th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.