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Janet

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic spelling of Jeanette (see also -et) [1] [2]

2) English (Scottish) diminutive form of Jane [3] [4] [5] [6]

3) English variant form of Gennet (see Geneda)

Related Names

Janet ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janeth ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janett ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Jannet ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Janneth ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Jannett ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish

See also Jan, Jessie

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Janet
Genitive: Janets
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Janet
Genitive: Janetin
Partitive: Janetia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Janet
Genitive: Janets
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Janet
Genitive: Janets

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 2,244 people were named Janet (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
1640 2886 1640 2886 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
378
n.a.
 378
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 470
n.a.
 470 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
412
n.a.
 412
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Janet.


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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