Jeanette

Where Jeanette comes from

From Jean + -ette or misspelling of French Jeannette, from Jeanne + -ette, q.v. Originally chiefly Scottish. Doublet of Janet, Jeannette, Juanita, Shanae, and Sinead.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jeanette
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #206 among girls — 55 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Jeanette MacDonald born
    American singer and actress
  3. 1939
    Peak, #82
    2,893 babies named Jeanette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1959
    Jeanette Winterson born
    English writer
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #190.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative form of Jeannette.
Namesakes
  • Jeanette Winterson · English writer, born 1959
  • Jeanette MacDonald · American singer and actress, 1903–1965
  • Jeanette Jerome · American-born British mother of Winston Churchill, 1854–1921
  • Jeanette Biedermann · German singer and actress, born 1980
  • Jeanette J. Epps · American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut, born 1970

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.