Jean — #2400 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jean

The Social Security Administration has registered 458,350 babies named Jean between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jean currently holds the #2400 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 12,512 babies received it in a single year. Jean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 24,863 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jean performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 105,999 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 55,816 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jean in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jean in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 458,350 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.