1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 33 girls were named Jeanne, about 1 in every 48,884.
- It peaked in 1947 with 4,364 babies, ranked #86.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 163,218 girls have been named Jeanne since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jeanne per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.6Greatest1901–27
- 1.9Silent1928–45
- 1.9Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 33,157 babies, 1.62 per 1,000. Silent: 38,508 babies, 1.86 per 1,000. Boomers: 68,852 babies, 1.92 per 1,000. Gen X: 17,042 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,533 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Z: 954 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 456 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, 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) which produced John and its many doublets. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
- A female given name from French.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jeanne, CC BY-SA 4.0.