girls:
17.1k births since 1882
#1141 (80th percentile)
overall:
17.1k births since 1882
#1974 (74th percentile)
The name Jeanie is the #1,974 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,109 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 74.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,141 (80.0% percentile) for all time with 17,109 births since 1882.
Jeanie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for girls in 1882).
For girls, Jeanie reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 48.2% percentile (ranked #398) with 238 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 243 births per million (ranked 46.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jeanie ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeanie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jeanie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jennie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jennie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jeanie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Jeanie is pronounced as JEE-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nee, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH IY1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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