Jean

24,740 people in the United States were counted with the surname Jean in the 2020 census, making it the 1,401st most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,740
Rank: 1,401st
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.3

Where the name comes from

A French surname from the male given name, or an English surname which originated as a variant spelling of Jayne or as a toponymic surname referring to Genoa, Italy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jean described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 73.5%
White, not Hispanic 18.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Jean

Michaëlle Jean (born 1957)Canadian journalist and 27th Governor General of Canada
Jean (born 1951)French musician and record producer
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean (1926–1987)President of Argentina
Al Jean (born 1961)American television writer and producer
Corentin Jean (born 1995)French footballer
Edmond Aman-Jean (1858–1936)French painter
Fritz Jean (born 1956)notable Haitian economist, politician and writer
Max Jean (born 1943)French racing driver

People named Jean with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jean

Also a first name

Jean has been given to 483,475 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1927. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.