How rare is the name Nannette?

4,813 people in the United States have the first name Nannette, about 1 in 62,753. It ranks #4,029 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NANNETTE

#4,029

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,813
About
1 in 62,753
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,813 people named Nannette, 70.9% reported their origin as White, 12.5% as Black and 10.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nannette peaked in 1963, when 323 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18892013
Peak year
1963
Births that year
323
In 2013
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,273 babies have been given the name since 1889. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Nannette by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,237. The largest share of babies named Nannette, 51.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#2,8837
1890s#3,01517
1900s#3,05234
1910s#4,28394
1920s#2,503330
1930s#1,804517
1940s#1,658728
1950s#1,3421,561
1960s#1,2372,034
1970s#2,429683
1980s#7,082170
1990s#16,10769
2000s#35,04317
2010s#38,64412
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–275.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4515.3%
Baby boom 1946–6451.1%
Generation X 1965–8023.4%
Millennials 1981–963.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.6%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nannette is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nannette has been most common in Michigan (2×), California (1.9×), and Utah (1.9×), and least common in Missouri (0.44×).

3,305 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nannette, most common first.

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