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Jean
Pronounced /d͡ʒiːn/
Rank in 2024
#2,414
Born in 2024
75
Peak year
1927 · #14
Origin
French
Also recorded for boys:184 in 2024 (#1,140)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 75 girls were named Jean, about 1 in every 21,509.
- It peaked in 1927 with 12,512 babies, ranked #14.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 458,350 girls have been named Jean since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jean per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 6.2Greatest1901–27
- 8.0Silent1928–45
- 3.6Boomers1946–64
- 1.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 126,667 babies, 6.19 per 1,000. Silent: 165,598 babies, 8.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 129,756 babies, 3.62 per 1,000. Gen X: 24,526 babies, 0.96 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,628 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,412 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 894 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Variant of Jeanne, from French Jeanne, from Old French Jehane, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān). Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
- A female given name from French.
- A male given name from French.
- A French surname from the male given name, or an English surname which originated as a variant spelling of Jayne or as a toponymic surname referring to Genoa, Italy.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- /d͡ʒiːn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jean, CC BY-SA 4.0.