Janette

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Janette: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Janette: Recorded since 1952, its highest recorded position is #58, and it was last ranked in 2019.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#58highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2019

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2011	#5785
2012	#5876
2019	#5591

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 30 of the 32 years from 1964 to 1995.

In 1957: #70 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #99 among girls in New Zealand.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1952–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #66 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1962
Highest recorded position: #58 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1953 (recorded 1952–1962).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #5591 among girls in England and Wales, in 2019.
England and Wales · Girls

Janette appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 30 ranked years and 391 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1952.

Janette across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Janette's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#201 (1964)	#186 (1965)	#417 (1995)	30 of 32	391 (1964–1995)	26 (1971)
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#4373 (2003)	#5591 (2019)	4 of 17	12 (2003–2019)	3 (2003)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#66 (1952)	#58 (1953)	#99 (1962)	11 of 11	1,325 (1952–1962)	157 (1954)

Janette by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Janette in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	95	6 of 10	16
1970sbusiest	173	10 of 10	17
1980s	103	10 of 10	10
1990s	20	4 of 10	5

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Janette appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #58 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954.

Janette's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
1962	New South Wales, Australia	female	#99	81	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	female	#85	100	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	female	#85	98	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#78	106	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#70	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#70	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	139	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#67	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	157	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#58	152	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New Zealand	female	#99	69	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#391	6	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#377	6	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#492	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#386	6	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#305	10	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#254	14	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	16	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#313	10	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#286	13	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#263	15	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#322	10	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#243	18	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	10	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	9	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#222	20	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#262	13	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#255	15	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#232	19	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#204	23	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#193	26	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#204	20	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#217	17	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	16	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#205	14	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#195	16	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#186	18	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#201	14	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1952 and 2019, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #58, first reached in 1953.

It held a top-100 place in 11 years, 11 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 157 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1954.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1957, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Janessa · #2325, 15y
Janet · #19, 76y
Janey · #1722, 22y
Janiah · #3695, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Clinton · #59, 46y
Tiffany · #57, 43y
Dane · #62, 45y
Francesca · #53, 49y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Connie · #58, 69y
Darryl · #58, 66y
Lindsay · #58, 55y
Michal · #58, 63y

Janette was ranked #58 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1953. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Janette and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Janette without appearing here.

Janette moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 1993 they stood at #391 and #304 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1994 that had become #374 and #502.
Judith Compare
In 1993 they stood at #391 and #322 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1994 that had become #374 and #411.
Ingrid Compare
In 1994 they stood at #374 and #350 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1995 that had become #417 and #451.
Marie Compare
In 1955 they stood at #67 and #63 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls; by 1956 that had become #63 and #78.

Moved ahead of Janette

Kelly Compare
In 1976 they stood at #222 and #298 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1977 that had become #329 and #174.
Abigail Compare
In 1993 they stood at #391 and #417 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1994 that had become #374 and #220.
Caitlin Compare
In 1990 they stood at #377 and #408 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1991 that had become #515 and #365.
Lara Compare
In 1994 they stood at #374 and #450 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1995 that had become #417 and #272.

Moved the opposite way to Janette

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 while Aisling went from #154 to #15.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 while Alexandra went from #222 to #128.
Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 while Alison went from #146 to #44.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 while Amanda went from #118 to #70.

Moved the same way as Janette

Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 and Angela from #24 to #167.
Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 and Audrey from #85 to #310.
Bernadette Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 and Bernadette from #15 to #181.
Bridget Compare
Between 1964 and 1995 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Janette went from #201 to #417 and Bridget from #8 to #75.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #58 in New South Wales, Australia in 1954. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Janette

Janette at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Janette across 3 official records

Janette by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Janette appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Janette at a glance

Janette across 3 official records

Janette by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Janette appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Janette

Janette and the names beside it

Janette moved ahead of

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