Jeannine
Jeannine was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,454 among girls’ names; 24,072 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Jeannine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeannine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeannine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jeannine is “a female given name from French.”
From French Jeannine, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Sometimes also parsed as a diminutive of English Jean, Jeanne, etc. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeannine?
#10,454 among girls’ names, 2025
Jeannine rose from #17,624 in 2015 to #10,454 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.6 per million.
1,189 babies in 1929, the peak
Jeannine peaked in 1929, when 1,189 babies were given it (1,183 girls, #172 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,454 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,559 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,177 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,804 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,288 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,054 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,133 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,893 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,256 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,624 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,489 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,575 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,670 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,649 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,801 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,655 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,016 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,937 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,644 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,968 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,830 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,976 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,438 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,109 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,102 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,908 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,254 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,666 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,041 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,649 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,489 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,705 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,781 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,124 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,676 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,501 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 86 | #1,468 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 125 | #1,144 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 148 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 186 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 167 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 185 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 197 | #814 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 202 | #787 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 232 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 227 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 271 | #594 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 324 | #533 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 349 | #503 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 371 | #483 | 0.25 |
| 1972 | 434 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1971 | 544 | #397 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 610 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1969 | 455 | #451 | 0.27 |
| 1968 | 429 | #463 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 473 | #432 | 0.29 |
| 1966 | 535 | #394 | 0.32 |
| 1965 | 577 | #382 | 0.33 |
| 1964 | 620 | #386 | 0.33 |
| 1963 | 537 | #417 | 0.28 |
| 1962 | 573 | #401 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 601 | #392 | 0.30 |
| 1960 | 637 | #378 | 0.32 |
| 1959 | 494 | #428 | 0.24 |
| 1958 | 441 | #453 | 0.22 |
| 1957 | 446 | #445 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 431 | #439 | 0.21 |
| 1955 | 416 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1954 | 487 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1953 | 446 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1952 | 435 | #397 | 0.23 |
| 1951 | 370 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1950 | 319 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 337 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 345 | #428 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 355 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1946 | 312 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1945 | 252 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1944 | 257 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1943 | 257 | #462 | 0.18 |
| 1942 | 275 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1941 | 256 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1940 | 294 | #396 | 0.26 |
| 1939 | 320 | #365 | 0.29 |
| 1938 | 336 | #351 | 0.30 |
| 1937 | 348 | #337 | 0.33 |
| 1936 | 416 | #300 | 0.40 |
| 1935 | 397 | #312 | 0.38 |
| 1934 | 334 | #345 | 0.32 |
| 1933 | 393 | #313 | 0.39 |
| 1932 | 437 | #303 | 0.41 |
| 1931 | 445 | #303 | 0.42 |
| 1930 | 593 | #258 | 0.53 |
| 1929 | 1,183 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1928 | 424 | #322 | 0.37 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,915 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,405 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,028 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,715 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,591 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeannine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeannine has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 110 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jeannine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeannine, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 24,072 Americans ever recorded as Jeannine. The median Jeannine alive today is 62 years old; half are between 54 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 18,843 people named Jeannine (18,829 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,034 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,720 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,790 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 94 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jeannine born?
The states with the most babies named Jeannine are New York, California and Illinois, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,935 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 2,271 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,681 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,381 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 1,243 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 1,239 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 1,188 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 702 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maine | 699 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Wisconsin | 664 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Jeannine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeannine is most over-represented in Maine: since 1914 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jeannine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 397,173 babies since 1880, Jeannine is the fourth most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 170 babies (5.3%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jeannine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jeannine and names like it
- Compare Jeannine and JeanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJeannine peaked in 1929.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeannine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Jeannine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Jeannine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jeannine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.