Girl
Nanette
As a girl's name, Nanette traces back to French, where it is understood to mean "French diminutive of Anne/Nancy". It was at its most popular in the 1960s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
FrenchFrench diminutive of Anne/Nancy
EtymologyMeaning "grace"
Births by decade
1900s
19
1910s
151
1920s
491
1930s
756
1940s
1,481
1950s
5,396
1960s
5,670
1970s
2,026
1980s
473
1990s
192
2000s
113
2010s
61
Peaked in the 1960s · 16,829 total U.S. births since 1900