How do you envision females with the following names?
[name_f]Georgette[/name_f]
[name_f]Annette[/name_f]
[name_f]Jeanette[/name_f]
[name_f]Nanette[/name_f]
[name_f]Minette[/name_f]?
[name_f]Georgette[/name_f] -friendly and cheerful, a little stubborn
[name_f]Annette[/name_f] - stylish, confident and likes travelling
[name_f]Jeanette[/name_f] -artistic, knows her own mind
[name_f]Nanette[/name_f] - kind with a good sense of humour
[name_f]Minette[/name_f] - slightly aloof, intelligent
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Georgette-- a rich, early 1900s girl who attends a fancy boarding school in the Alps.
Annette-- a secretary in her 20s in 1920s [name_f]Manhattan[/name_f]. She rides her bicycle to work and enjoys going to flapper and music events in the evening.
Jeanette-- a 17 year old in a 1950s suburban neighborhood. She has a perm and likes roller skating, going to school dances, and getting milkshakes with her friends at the drugstore.
Nanette-- a very old woman in a book set in the 1800s, the great grandmother character who sits in her rocking chair and is too old to do anything. She is very short and wrinkled.
Minette-- a maid in her early 20s working for a wealthy family in the early 1900s. She is small with brown hair in a braided up-do and wears a black dress with a white lacy apron and matching maid cap.
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Georgette - Classy, elegant and strong. Does what she likes, but cares about others.
Annette - Sweet, agreeable, quiet, and kind.
Jeanette - My grandma. (lol) Has a strong, quiet spirit and will do everything for anyone.
Nanette - A sassy tomboy
Minette - Creative and dramatic. Sensitive, has strong feeling about everything.
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I imagine that they’d all be elderly ladies! Not all -ette names feel this way to me (see [name_f]Juliette[/name_f], [name_f]Miette[/name_f] as examples), but most do. This isn’t a negative in the least, it’s just what I imagine when I hear one of these vintage, out-of-trend -ette names! 
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Thanks for your responses. I am curious if ette names will come back in.
[name_f]Annette[/name_f] for example seems to me quite dated. I think of the Mouseketeers.
But [name_f]Georgette[/name_f], [name_f]Nanette[/name_f], and [name_f]Jeanette[/name_f] I can picture on modern girls and women. [name_f]Georgette[/name_f] in particular because it reminds me of Regency romance novels, Bridgerton-type stuff.