Jeannette

A French diminutive of Jeanne, tracing back through Latin and Greek to Hebrew. The spelling crossed the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century alongside an American appetite for French suffixes. State birth registers have spent over a century accidentally dropping one of the letters.

The name reads as someone who knows the proper way to fold a fitted sheet. It places its bearer in the mid-twentieth century, with an average age in the sixties. Most people picture a handwritten address book with entries corrected in pencil. The extra consonants suggest high standards for envelope calligraphy.