Jeannette
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century: most Poles will never meet a Jeannette. The French form of a Latin name meaning "god is gracious".
Jeannette Pronunciation
Jeannette is pronounced ye-ahn-NET-te (/jɛanˈnɛttɛ/).
What Jeannette means
Where Jeannette comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jeannette began as a French diminutive of Jeanne. Behind Jeanne stands the Latin Johannes, and Johannes carries the sense "God is gracious." The suffix -ette made it smaller. It turned a common Jeanne into something fonder and closer to hand.
The name kept its French shape as it traveled. Jeannette Rankin, sworn into the United States House in 1916, was the first woman elected to Congress, and she held onto the double n and the closing -ette rather than smoothing them into an English Janet. The spelling marks the origin every time someone writes it out.
Read plainly, the name says what Jeanne says. God is gracious. That meaning reaches back through Johannes to the older root, so a girl called Jeannette carries the short Polish gloss, bóg jest łaskawy, in a French coat.
How many people are named Jeannette
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Jeannette. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4761 among female names.
Jeannette as a middle name
Jeannette is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1453rd, between Jarmila (24) and Jolantyna (24).
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#1451 Harper24
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#1452 Jarmila24
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#1453 Jeannette24
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#1454 Jolantyna24
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#1455 Jolita24