Jonette
Jonette is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Jonette
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jonette is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Jonette
Jonette first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1930, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1962: 48 births, good for #1,627 nationwide. About 29% of every Jonette on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Jonette last appeared in the published SSA data in 2001, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Jonette
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About the name Jonette
Jonette is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1930 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Jonette's peak popularity came in 1962 when it ranked #1,627. Use the chart and map above to compare Jonette's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.