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Janet
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒænɪt/
Rank in 2024
#2,440
Born in 2024
74
Peak year
1954 · #19
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 74 girls were named Janet, about 1 in every 21,800.
- It peaked in 1954 with 18,477 babies, ranked #19.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 556,709 girls have been named Janet since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Janet per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.5Greatest1901–27
- 7.5Silent1928–45
- 8.0Boomers1946–64
- 2.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 30,286 babies, 1.48 per 1,000. Silent: 154,410 babies, 7.47 per 1,000. Boomers: 286,084 babies, 7.99 per 1,000. Gen X: 55,027 babies, 2.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 19,409 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,442 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,584 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Jane + -et, q.v. Chiefly Scottish until the 19th century. Doublet of Jeanette, Jeannette, Juanita, Shanae, and Sinead.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒænɪt/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Janet, CC BY-SA 4.0.