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Janett

Recorded 1911–2025 · United States

Janett was most popular in 1991, when 71 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,210 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,542 people named Janett.

Most popular in1991
Rank that year#3,210
Births that year71
Total since 18803,542
Given to100% girls
Alive today~2,000
Median age48

Janett over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Janett’s peak in 1991. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Janett?

Janett first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1911, which makes it about 114 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 110 of the 115 years since.

How many people are named Janett?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,542 American births named Janett between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,705 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Janett in 2025?

7 American babies were named Janett in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.

Is Janett getting more or less popular?

Janett is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 13 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Janett a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Janett is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,542 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Janett?

Roughly 2,705 Americans named Janett are alive today — 76% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 48 years old, and half are between 32 and 69. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Janett is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org