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Jeancarlos vs Jeannette

American parents have registered 69,300 Jeannettes since 1880, against 1,308 Jeancarloses. Jeannette is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeancarlos 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 131 years and Jeancarlos for 15 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jeancarlos Jeannette
Total US births 1,30869,300
Most in one year 1201,113
Babies in 2025 1224
Estimated living today 1,30033,000
Median age today 1464
Peak year 20101917
Best rank 1,390th boys177th girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd5,238th
First recorded 19861880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,30869,251 / 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 Jeancarloses are over 14. That is 50 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: Jeancarlos and Jeannette.