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Jeanluc vs Jeannie

American parents have registered 36,170 Jeannies since 1880, against 1,057 Jeanlucs. But in 2025 it was Jeanluc that was commoner, 19 babies to 16.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeanluc against Jeannie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeanluc 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 127 years and Jeanluc for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jeanluc Jeannie
Total US births 1,05736,170
Most in one year 651,430
Babies in 2025 1916
Estimated living today 1,00029,000
Median age today 2561
Peak year 19921957
Best rank 1,417th boys222nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,045th6,838th
First recorded 19871882
Girls / boys 0 / 1,05736,115 / 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 Jeanlucs are over 25. That is 36 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: Jeanluc and Jeannie.