girls:
458.3k births since 1880
#73 (99th percentile)
boys:
24.7k births since 1880
#730 (84th percentile)
overall:
483k births since 1880
#136 (98th percentile)
The name Jean is the #136 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 482,951 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #73 (98.7% percentile) for all time with 458,272 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #730 (84.1% percentile) for all time with 24,679 births since 1880.
Jean has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Jean has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 30.6% of babies named Jean were girls. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for girls (96.3% girls from 1880 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (69.8% boys from 1992 to 2023).
For girls, Jean reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 98.2% percentile (ranked #12) with 10,212 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 10,275 births per million (ranked 97.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jean ranks #885 for girls (6.6% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jean reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 46.5% percentile (ranked #291) with 287 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 287 births per million (ranked 46.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jean ranks #764 for boys (16.2% percentile) with 83 births per million, which is 29.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jean".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jean. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jean is pronounced as jeen, which has 1 syllables.
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