Girls' name · since 1943
Jeany
Jeany has 136 recorded births since 1943 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1957 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 136
- total births
- 1943–2001
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 24%
- born in that decade
136 girls have been named Jeany since 1943, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jeany has been recorded 136 times among girls since 1943, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 1980s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1943 to 2001.
- 136 total births
- 1943–2001 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 24% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jeany's 136 recorded births place it above 67% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jeany's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jeany splits its recorded history at 1978: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1948 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1957 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jeany popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1943–2001
- Peak year (1957)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 59 years of records
Jeany by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jeany's strongest decade.
33 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 24% of all-time use.
Jeany births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 11
1940s
11 births
- 1950s
1950s
23 births
- 1960s 13
1960s
13 births
- 1970s
1970s
32 births
- 1980s
1980s
33 births
- 1990s
1990s
18 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 33 births (24% of all-time use).
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- Jeany's decade-level peak was the 1980s (33 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1943–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jeany: Baby Name Since 1943 - 136 Births, Peak 1957." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jeany. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jeany draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.