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Jeannette vs Jeanpaul

American parents have registered 69,300 Jeannettes since 1880, against 1,767 Jeanpauls. Jeannette is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeannette Jeanpaul

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

Jeannette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jeannette had 36 and Jeanpaul had 30.

Side by side

  Jeannette Jeanpaul
Total US births 69,3001,767
Most in one year 1,11356
Babies in 2025 2412
Estimated living today 33,0001,700
Median age today 6433
Peak year 19171979
Best rank 177th girls1,221st boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th6,803rd
First recorded 18801957
Girls / boys 69,251 / 490 / 1,767

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 Jeanpauls are over 33. That is 31 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: Jeannette and Jeanpaul.