Girl · French
Jeanette
Say it: juh-NET
Meaning
A diminutive of French Jeanne, from Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in the US in the early to mid 1900s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 163,635 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1939, about 1 in 379 girls
- 65 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Jeannette, Janette, Jeanetta
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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