girls:
347 births since 1976
#5369 (6th percentile)
boys:
143 births since 1977
#4443 (3rd percentile)
overall:
490 births since 1976
#7249 (6th percentile)
The name Jehan is the #7,249 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 490 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,369 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 347 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,443 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1977.
Jehan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Jehan is available in 42 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (35 years for girls and 22 years for boys). 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 Jehan has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Jehan were girls. Interestingly, until around 2004, the name was more popular for girls (83.5% girls from 1976 to 2003), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (56.4% boys from 2004 to 2023).
For girls, Jehan reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #786) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Jehan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jehan ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 63.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jehan".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Jehan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.9% confident that Jehan is pronounced as jeh-HAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jee-HAHN, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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