Janette

Where Janette comes from

The dictionaries list Janette as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Janet — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1938
    Janette Scott born
    Film actress
  3. 1953
    Peak, #310
    699 babies named Janette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    Janette Husárová born
    Slovak female tennis player
  5. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #509.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Janet.
Namesakes
  • Janette Husárová · Slovak female tennis player, born 1974
  • Janette Scott · Film actress, born 1938
  • Janette Hargin · Swedish alpine skier, born 1977
  • Janette Deacon · South African archaeologist, born 1939
  • Janette Rauch · Swiss actress, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.