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Jeannette vs Jearld

American parents have registered 69,300 Jeannettes since 1880, against 547 Jearlds. Jeannette is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jeannette Jearld

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 1941, when Jeannette had 948 and Jearld had 29.

Side by side

  Jeannette Jearld
Total US births 69,300547
Most in one year 1,11329
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 33,000260
Median age today 6471
Peak year 19171941
Best rank 177th girls1,230th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238thunranked
First recorded 18801920
Girls / boys 69,251 / 490 / 547

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 Jearlds alive today are over 71; half the Jeannettes are over 64. That is 7 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: Jeannette and Jearld.