Nannette

Where Nannette comes from

Nannette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1769
    Nannette Streicher born
    German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
  2. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,025 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1963
    Nannette Jolivette Brown born
    United States District Judge
  4. 1963
    Peak, #539
    323 babies named Nannette — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #809.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nannette Streicher · German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer, 1769–1833
  • Nannette Jolivette Brown · United States District Judge, born 1963

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.