Jeannette

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Jeannette: Recorded since 1967, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #393, and it was last ranked in 2013.

2registrars recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#393highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Jeannette's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
2013	#5742

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 11 of the 26 years from 1967 to 1992.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2013 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #393 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1967–1992
Highest recorded position: #393 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1967 (recorded 1967–1992).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2013
Most recently recorded at #5742 among girls in England and Wales, in 2013.
England and Wales · Girls

Jeannette appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 39 births with the name.

Jeannette across 2 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.

Jeannette'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	#393 (1967)	#393 (1967)	#456 (1992)	11 of 26	39 (1967–1992)	4 (1970)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#3795 (1996)	#5742 (2013)	2 of 18	6 (1996–2013)	3 (1996)

Jeannette 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 Jeannette in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	3	1 of 10	3
1970sbusiest	25	7 of 10	4
1980s	7	2 of 10	4
1990s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

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

Jeannette 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 2 regions, from 1967 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #393 in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Jeannette'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
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#468	4	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1967 and 2013, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #393, first reached in 1967.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 4 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1970.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 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.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
9separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
16 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#5,742position in 2013, its most recent recorded year
29 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
4births registered in its largest year, 1970Under 25 births →

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.

Jeanie · #2253, 26y
Jeanne · #284, 47y
Jeannie · #391, 25y
Jed · #224, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Ion · #393, 16y
Lauretta · #393, 10y
Martins · #393, 15y
Wen · #393, 17y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Caterina · #393, 30y
Eibhlis · #393, 10y
Eveleen · #393, 22y
Lauretta · #393, 10y

Jeannette was ranked #393 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1967. 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.

Jeannette 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 Jeannette without appearing here.

Jeannette moved ahead of

Camilla Compare
In 1991 they stood at #459 and #414 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1992 that had become #456 and #523.
Florence Compare
In 1991 they stood at #523 and #399 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1992 that had become #456 and #523.
Hanna Compare
In 1991 they stood at #523 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1992 that had become #456 and #523.
Heidi Compare
In 1991 they stood at #459 and #365 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1992 that had become #456 and #523.

Moved ahead of Jeannette

Leah Compare
In 1972 they stood at #396 and #447 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1973 that had become #449 and #305.
Katie Compare
In 1976 they stood at #449 and #508 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1977 that had become #468 and #391.
Hayley Compare
In 1978 they stood at #469 and #522 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1979 that had become #523 and #523.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 1967 to 2013. Highest recorded position: #393 in Republic of Ireland in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Jeannette

Jeannette at a glance

What stands out in Jeannette's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jeannette across 2 official records

Jeannette by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Jeannette appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Jeannette

Jeannette and the names beside it

Jeannette moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jeannette

Jeannette at a glance

What stands out in Jeannette's record

Jeannette across 2 official records

Jeannette by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Jeannette appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Jeannette

Jeannette and the names beside it

Jeannette moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Jeannette