Jenet
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jenet is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 48K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 87K
- USUnited States1 in 857K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈440 ●
- Sources
- 131 ●
- 1 in 250K ◐
across 5 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | 1,922 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Jenet | 22 |
| IN India | — | 1,590 | 1.5K rec. | — | 129 | Jenet | 23 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 1,505 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Jenet | 28 |
| KE Kenya | — | 390 | 12 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 6 |
| US United States | — | 388 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 857K | 388 | Jenet | 131 |
| MW Malawi | #154 | 291 | 1 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 246 | 255 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 192 | 212 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 173 | 162 rec. | — | 1 | Jenet | 39 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 139 | 95 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | 95 | 54 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 94 | 50 rec. | — | — | Jenet | 21 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.2K50%
- Swahili1.3K11%
- Hindi1.2K9%
- Spanish1.1K9%
- 3573%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,165 | 50% |
| Swahili | 1,342 | 11% |
| Hindi | 1,168 | 9% |
| Spanish | 1,095 | 9% |
| 357 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 17 years between 1942–1999. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dafna Michaelson Jenetb. 1972USpolitician
- Veronika Jenetb. 2000AUAustralian film editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 388 | #24,188 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 129 | #21,974 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 72 | #20,073 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 29 | #11,742 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #17,746 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #28,085 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #24,188 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 12 | #25,977 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 80 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jenet?
- We estimate roughly 440 people bear Jenet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jenet have the most bearers?
- Jenet is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled jenet.
- How common is Jenet compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Jenet is the 154th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Jenet a male or female name?
- Jenet is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jenet” — the 154th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.