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Jeanann vs Jeannine

American parents have registered 24,072 Jeannines since 1880, against 644 Jeananns. Jeannine is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeanann against Jeannine, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeanann Jeannine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jeannine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1924, when Jeanann had 6 and Jeannine had 17.

Side by side

  Jeanann Jeannine
Total US births 64424,072
Most in one year 281,189
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 47016,000
Median age today 6262
Peak year 19631929
Best rank 2,252nd girls172nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,107th
First recorded 19241914
Girls / boys 644 / 024,066 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeanann and Jeannine.