Lanette
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Lanette by the numbers
Lanette was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 186 babies in 1964, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lanette
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lanette. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Lynettelittle lake; diminutive of lynn67 in the US (2017)
- Linettelinen cloth; small flax plant16 in the US (2017)
- Leanette6 in the US (2017)
- Lizettegod is my oath; diminutive of elizabeth42 in the US (2017)
- LisetteGod's oath; a form of Elizabeth41 in the US (2017)
- Lynnettelake; a form of Lynn or Linnet24 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lanette
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