Jeanne
The girl's name Jeanne has been in the national records since 1880, with 163,609 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,546th. About 87,000 Jeannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 163,609
- Estimated living today
- 87,000
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 86th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,546th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 163,249 / 360
How old the living Jeannes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 163,609 babies given the name since 1880, about 87,000 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 700 of them are children and 56,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
From French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה, the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן which produced John and its many doublets.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jeannes
- Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017)French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
- Jeanne Calment (1875–1997)French supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan
- Jeanne d'Albret (1528–1572)Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572
- Jeanne Crain (1925–2003)American actress
- Jeanne Baret (1740–1807)French explorer, naturalist and botanist
- Jeanne Tripplehorn (born 1963)American actress
- Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1776)French author
- Jeanne Shaheen (born 1947)United States Senator from New Hampshire
People named Jeanne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeanne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeanne is most concentrated in Rhode Island (3.0×), Massachusetts (2.6×), Maine (2.1×), Minnesota (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Jeanne peaked:
Jeanne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Jeanne | 567,320 | 2nd |
| Belgium girls | Jeanne | 3,647 | 28th |
| Switzerland girls | Jeanne | 836 | 141st |
| England and Wales girls | Jeanne | 140 | 2,025th |
| Ireland girls | Jeanne | 117 | 284th |
| France boys | Jeanne | 55 | 4,445th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jeanne: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Jeanne | 260 | 0.021% | 229th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Jeanne | 569 | 0.131% | 54th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Jeanne | 7 | 0.011% | 84th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jeanne is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.22% of children were given it – 155 of them.
Jeanne: rank by region
In 2025, Jeanne was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jeanne | 47 | 86 |
| Wallonia | Jeanne | 26 | 88 |
| Brussels | Jeanne | 63 | 15 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jeanne appears in the lists for Province of Namur (4th), Province of Luxembourg (14th), Province of Walloon Brabant (15th), Province of West Flanders (26th), Province of Liège (27th), Province of Flemish Brabant (45th), Province of Hainaut (48th), Province of East Flanders (53rd), Brussels-Capital Region (63rd) and Province of Antwerp (67th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jeanne by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 8 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jeanne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Jeanne | 3,128 | 9,629 |
| the Netherlands boys | Jeanne | — | 271 |
| Finland girls | Jeanne | 25 | 93 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jeanne lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 198 women called Jeanne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Jeanne | 15 | 0.024 | 2,167 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jeanne | 18 | 0.018 | 2,725 |
| Girona | Jeanne | 7 | 0.017 | 2,558 |
| Valencia/València | Jeanne | 20 | 0.014 | 2,707 |
| Barcelona | Jeanne | 40 | 0.013 | 3,016 |
| Almería | Jeanne | 5 | 0.013 | 3,025 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jeanne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.