Janet


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
731 famous people named Janet found on Wikipedia.
556086 female, 1518 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 1412-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 16-th in year 1938
Used in: English

Meanings

Janet is a feminine given name meaning "Little Joan". It is a variation of the French proper noun Jeannette, Spanish proper noun Juanita, Russian Жанет (Zhanet), Circassian Джэнэт (Janet), and Hungarian Zsanett. It is also the diminutive of Jeanne or Jane.

Fem. proper name, a diminutive of Jane with -et. In Middle English, Ionete-of-the-steues "Janet of the Stews" (see stew (n.)) was a common name for a prostitute (late 14c.).

God is gracious; Jehovah has been gracious.

Famous People: 731 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Janet Jackson 1966 Singer from the United States
2 Janet Leigh 1927 American actress
3 Janet Yellen 1946 American economist and professor
4 Janet Reno 1938 Former Attorney General of the United States
5 Janet Hubert 1956 American actress, singer
6 Janet Sheen 1944 American film producer, visual artist, actor and artist
7 Janet Montgomery 1985 British actress
8 Janet McTeer 1961 British actress
9 Janet Mock 1983 LGBT rights activist
10 Janet Varney 1976 American actress
11 Janet Jones 1961 American actress
12 Janet Napolitano 1957 American politician and lawyer
13 Janet Street-Porter 1946 British media personality, journalist and broadcaster
14 Janet Lee Bouvier 1907 American socialite
15 Janet Gaynor 1906 Actress
16 Janet Evanovich 1943 Novelist
17 Janet Devlin 1994 Northern Irish singer/songwriter
18 Janet Munro 1934 English actress
19 Janet Waldo 1920 American actress
20 Janet Margolin 1943 American actress
21 Janet Evans 1971 American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
22 Janet Huckabee 1955 American politician
23 Janet Hsieh 1980 Taiwanese-American television host
24 Janet Ellis 1955 English TV presenter and actress
25 Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd 1945 American socialite
26 Janet Frame 1924 New Zealand author
27 Janet Wright 1945 Canadian actress
28 Janet Davies 1927 English actress
29 Janet Cooke 1954 American journalist
30 Janet Jacme 1967 American pornographic actor
31 Janet Morris 1946 American novelist
32 Janet Dibley 1958 British actress
33 Janet Weiss 1965 American drummer
34 Janet Brown 1923 Scottish actress and impersonator
35 Janet Suzman 1939 South Africa actress
36 Janet Lim-Napoles 1964 Filipino businesswoman
37 Janet Maslin 1949 American journalist and critic
38 Janet Henfrey 1935 British actress
39 Janet Fielding 1953 Australian actress
40 Janet Gunn 1961 American actress
41 Janet Blair 1921 Actress
42 Janet Baker 1933 Opera and concert singer
43 Janet Stephens American archaeologist and hairdresser
44 Janet Carroll 1940 Actress, singer
45 Janet Guthrie 1938 American racing driver
46 Janet Langhart 1941 American politician
47 Janet Asimov 1926 Author, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
48 Janet Jagan 1920 President of Guyana, Prime Minister of Guyana, nurse
49 Jenita Janet 1987 Indonesian singer
50 Janet Mason 1967
51 Janet Museveni 1948 First Lady of Uganda
52 Janet Kidder 1972 Canadian actress
53 Pierre Janet 1859 French psychologist
54 Janet Paschal 1956 Singer
55 Janet Julian 1959 American actress
56 Janet Grillo
57 Janet Dailey 1944 American writer
58 Janet Patterson 1956 Australian costume designer
59 Janet Mitchell
60 Janet Nguyen 1976 American politician
61 Janet Pilgrim 1934 American actor, playboy playmate, playboy playmate and playboy playmate
62 Janet Collins 1917 American dancer
63 Janet Smith 1940 British judge
64 Janet MacLachlan 1933 American actress
65 Janet Müller 1984 German actress
66 Janet Malcolm 1934 American journalist
67 Janet Tamaro 1961 American television writer
68 Janet Andrewartha 1952 Australian actress
69 Janet Fish 1938 American painter
70 Janet Burston 1935 American actress
71 Janet Lynn 1953 Figure skater
72 Janet C. Wolfenbarger 1958 United States Air Force general
73 Janet Kay 1958 English Lovers rock singer
74 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon 1955 British Labour politician
75 Janet Shamlian 1962 American journalist
76 Janet Banzet 1934 American actress
77 Janet G. Travell 1901 American physician
78 Janet Horne British alleged witch
79 Janet Gardner 1962 American musician
80 Janet Fitch 1955 American writer
81 Janet Albrechtsen 1966 Australian journalist and newspaper columnist
82 Janet Echelman 1966 American sculptor and artist
83 Janet Parshall 1950 American broadcaster
84 Janet Leon 1990 Swedish singer
85 Janet Dacal American actress
86 Janet Rowley 1925 American human geneticist
87 Janet Flanner 1892 American journalist
88 Janet Farrar 1950 British occultist
89 Janet Daley 1944 British journalist
90 Janet Holmes à Court 1943 Australian businessperson
91 Janet Quin-Harkin 1941 British writer of children's picture books, YA novels, and (as Rhys Bowen) mystery novels
92 Janet Chow 1983 Hong Kong actress
93 Janet Wood
94 Janet Cardiff 1957 Canadian artist
95 Janet DiFiore 1955
96 Janet Landgard 1947 Actress
97 Janet Emerson Bashen 1957 American businessman
98 Janet Key 1945 British actress
99 Janet Huntington Brewster 1910 Philanthropist, writer, radio broadcaster, relief worker
100 Janet Abu-Lughod 1928 American historian
101 Janet Young, Baroness Young 1926 British politician
102 Janet Hardy Writer and sex educator
103 Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis 1498 Executed for witchcraft
104 Janet Sobel 1894 Artist
105 Janet Radcliffe Richards 1944 British philosopher
106 Janet Biehl 1953 Former anarchist
107 Janet Murguía 1960 American legal scholar
108 Janet T. Mills 1947 American politician
109 Janet Godfrey American musician
110 Janet Mead 1938 Australian singer
111 Charles Janet 1849 French engineer, company director, inventor and biologist
112 Janet Cowell 1968 American politician
113 Janet Banana 1938 First Lady of Zimbabwe
114 Janet Rice 1960 Australian politician
115 Janet de Botton 1952 British bridge player, art collector and philanthropist
116 Janet Elliott Wulsin 1894 American explorer
117 Janet Murray 1946 American academic
118 Janet Ågren 1949 Film actress
119 Janet Beer British academic administrator
120 Janet L. Kavandi 1959 Astronaut
121 Janet Dillon
122 Janet Mahoney British actress
123 Janet Erskine Stuart 1857 English nun and school teacher
124 Janet Lees Price 1943 Actress
125 Janet Browne 1950 British academic
126 Janet Brandt 1914 American actress
127 Janet Lee 1976 Taiwanese tennis player
128 Janet Arnold 1932 British costume designer
129 Janet Peoples American screenwriter
130 Janet Nelson 1942 English historian and academic
131 Janet Aalfs 1956 Poet; martial artist
132 Janet Todd 1942 British academic
133 Janet Beecher 1884 American actress
134 Janet Mbugua 1984
135 Janet Webb 1930 England actor
136 Janet Thornton 1949 British bioinformatician and academic
137 Janet Leahy American television writer and producer
138 Janet L. Robinson 1950 Former President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company
139 Janet E. Smith 1950 American activist
140 Janet Kennedy 1490 Mistress of James IV of Scotland
141 Janet Robin 1966 American musician
142 Janet Tashjian 1956 American writer
143 Janet Fraiser Character in Stargate SG-1
144 Janet Achurch 1864 English stage actress
145 Paul Janet 1823 French philosopher
146 Janet Cruz 1956 Florida State Representative
147 Janet Akyüz Mattei 1943 Turkish astronomer
148 Janet Sanz Cid 1984 Spanish politician
149 Janet De Nardis 1978 Italian actress
150 Janet Tavakoli 1953 American writer
151 Janet Bloomfield 1953 British activist
152 Janet De Gore American actress
153 Janet McDonald 1953 American writer
154 Janet Trotter 1943 British academic
155 Janet Chisholm 1929 British spy
156 Janeta Kerdikoshvili 1992 Beauty pageant winner
157 Janet 'Rusty' Skuse 1943 British tattoo artist
158 Janet Fookes, Baroness Fookes 1936 British politician
159 Janet Reger 1935 British fashion designer
160 Janet Woollacott 1939 British dancer
161 Janet Ross 1842 English historian and biographer
162 Janet Mikhail 1945 Palestinian model
163 Janet Khoo 1972 Malaysian actress
164 Janet H. Adkins 1965 Florida State Representative
165 Janet Peckinpaugh 1951 American television personality
166 Janet Mondlane 1935 Mozambican politician
167 Janet Chapman American writer
168 Janet Ecker 1953 Canadian politician
169 Janet Afary 1960 Iranian academic
170 Janet Seidel 1955 Australian musician
171 Janet Perry 1947 Singer
172 Janet Lane-Claypon 1877 Physician and epidemiologist
173 Janet Krupin 1987 American entertainer
174 Janet Lewis 1899 Novelist, poet
175 Janet Finch 1946 British sociologist and academic
176 Janet Vaughan 1899 British physiologist and radiobiologist
177 Janet Basco Filipino singer
178 Janet Kagan 1946 Science fiction author
179 Janet Burroway 1936 American writer
180 Janet Hamill 1945 American poet
181 Janet Holmes 1947 New Zealand sociolinguist
182 Janet Fox 1912 American actress
183 Janet Gray Hayes 1926 American mayor
184 Janet Howell 1944 Virginia Democrat politician
185 Janet van de Graaf 1965 Canadian comedian
186 Janet Cherobon-Bawcom 1978 American long distance runner
187 Janet C. Hall 1948 United States federal judge
188 Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico 1940 British writer
189 Janet Ciccone
190 Janet Kath 1964 Austrian manager
191 Janet G. Woititz American Psychologist
192 Janet Rossant 1950 Biologist
193 Janet Finch-Saunders Member of the National Assembly for Wales
194 Janet Petersen 1970 Iowa State Representative from the 64th District
195 Janet Bonnema
196 Janet Lowe American business writer
197 Janet Greek 1949 American director
198 Janet Lunn 1928 Canadian children's writer
199 Janet Yang 1956 American film producer
200 Janet Annenberg Hooker 1904