Jeannetta vs Jeannie
American parents have registered 36,170 Jeannies since 1880, against 1,510 Jeannettas. Jeannie is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jeannetta 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 138 years in which either name was published, Jeannie for 128 years and Jeannetta for 10 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
Side by side
| Jeannetta | Jeannie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,510 | 36,170 |
| Most in one year | 35 | 1,430 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 16 |
| Estimated living today | 820 | 29,000 |
| Median age today | 63 | 61 |
| Peak year | 1956 | 1957 |
| Best rank | 1,796th girls | 222nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 6,838th |
| First recorded | 1892 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 1,510 / 0 | 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 Jeannettas alive today are over 63; half the Jeannies are over 61. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeannetta and Jeannie.