Entry № 4875 · French origin

Jeanette Jeanette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ juh-NET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"God is gracious (Jeannette Rankin, first woman in US Congress, 1917)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "god is gracious (jeannette rankin, first woman in us congress, 1917)".

Jeanette is the French diminutive of Jeanne — from the Hebrew Yochanan ("God is gracious"). A lifelong pacifist; the only member of Congress to vote against US entry into both World War I (1917) and World War II (1941) — the latter vote was 388-1. Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) — British author; Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011); OBE. Jeanette Lee — "The Black Widow" pool champion. Jeanette Bouvier — Jackie Kennedy's middle name was Bouvier.

God is gracious. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman ever elected to US Congress (1917) — voted against both world wars.

The name in its native script.

Jeanette
Transliteration
Jeanette
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈnɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jeanette stands.

Jeanette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jeanettes before her.

Real people
Jeannette Rankin
First woman in US Congress.
1880 – 1973
Jeanette MacDonald
American soprano.
1903 – 1965
Jeanette Winterson
British author.
born 1959
In fiction
Jeanette
Various French literature.

Names connected to Jeanette.

The number behind Jeanette.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jeanette reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.