Jeanette
Barely over 120 women in Poland carry it, and no newborns turn up in the registers: most Poles have never met a Jeanette. The name is Hebrew at root, meaning "god is gracious".
Jeanette Pronunciation
Jeanette is pronounced ye-ah-NET-te (/jɛaˈnɛttɛ/).
What Jeanette means
Where Jeanette comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jeanette begins in French as a small form of Jeanne, the feminine of Jean. Follow the name back and you reach the Latin Iohannes, and behind that the Hebrew Yohanan, which means "God is gracious." The ending -ette marks a diminutive, so Jeanette reads as "little Jeanne."
English speakers took the name up and made it their own. The American singer and actress Jeanette MacDonald, born in 1903, carried it into film and operetta, and for a while the spelling belonged to Hollywood as much as to France. The Hebrew root never went anywhere, though. It sat under every English "Jeanette" the whole time.
In a Polish class register the name looks foreign, and it is. A child called Jeanette here holds an English habit and a Hebrew meaning at once: "God is gracious," or in Polish bóg jest łaskawy.
How many people are named Jeanette
1 in 181805 women in Poland is named Jeanette. 124 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3014 among female names.
Jeanette as a middle name
Jeanette is a first name for 124 women in Poland and a middle name for another 55, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 923rd, between Hoa (55) and Jenny (55).
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#921 Genevieve55
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#922 Hoa55
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#923 Jeanette55
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#924 Jenny55
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#925 Luz55