girls:
670 births since 1910
#5046 (12th percentile)
boys:
559 births since 1914
#4027 (12th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1910
#6511 (16th percentile)
The name Gean is the #6,511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,229 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 15.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,046 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 670 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,027 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 559 births since 1914.
Gean first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Gean is available in 70 out of the 113 years between 1910 and 2022 (61 years for boys and 52 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gean is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Gean were boys. Interestingly, until around 1961, the name was more popular for girls (59.7% girls from 1910 to 1960), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (81.8% boys from 1961 to 2022).
For girls, Gean reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #561) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 24 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
For boys, Gean reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #513) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gean".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Gean is pronounced as jeen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is geen, at 12.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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