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Jeancarlo vs Jeannette

American parents have registered 69,300 Jeannettes since 1880, against 950 Jeancarlos. Jeannette is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeancarlo Jeannette

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

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Jeannette for 138 years and Jeancarlo for 8 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jeancarlo Jeannette
Total US births 95069,300
Most in one year 801,113
Babies in 2025 724
Estimated living today 94033,000
Median age today 1664
Peak year 20101917
Best rank 1,816th boys177th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th5,238th
First recorded 19861880
Girls / boys 0 / 95069,251 / 49

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jeannettes alive today are over 64; half the Jeancarlos are over 16. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Jeancarlo and Jeannette.