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Jean
Pronounced /d͡ʒiːn/
Rank in 2024
#1,140
Born in 2024
184
Peak year
1993 · #490
Origin
French
Also recorded for girls:75 in 2024 (#2,414)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 184 boys were named Jean, about 1 in every 9,322.
- It peaked in 1993 with 428 babies, ranked #490.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 24,863 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,960 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Silent: 3,615 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Boomers: 2,894 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,516 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,687 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,973 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,859 babies, 0.09 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.