Jeanine vs Jeannie
American parents have registered 36,170 Jeannies since 1880, against 23,826 Jeanines. Jeannie is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jeanine Jeannie
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 134 years in which either name was published, Jeannie for 111 years and Jeanine for 23 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1882–1928 Jeannie ahead
- 1929–1939 Jeanine ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1940–1963 Jeannie ahead
- 1964–1966 Jeanine ahead
- 1967–2003 Jeannie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2006–2011 Jeanine ahead
- 2015–2025 Jeannie ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Jeanine | Jeannie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 23,826 | 36,170 |
| Most in one year | 850 | 1,430 |
| Babies in 2025 | 9 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 20,000 | 29,000 |
| Median age today | 58 | 61 |
| Peak year | 1960 | 1957 |
| Best rank | 323rd girls | 222nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,107th | 6,838th |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 23,815 / 11 | 36,115 / 55 |
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 Jeannies alive today are over 61; half the Jeanines are over 58. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Jeanine New York (2.4×), Illinois (2.1×), Wisconsin (1.8×)
- Jeannie Oklahoma (2.0×), Arkansas (1.7×), Oregon (1.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Jeanine | Jeannie |
|---|---|---|
| France | 49,520 | 3,050 |
| England and Wales | 6 | 135 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeanine and Jeannie.