Jehan
Jehan was last recorded in 2025, when 7 babies were given it; 503 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jehan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jehan mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Jehan is “a male given name of historical usage”
From Middle French Jehan, ultimately from Latin Iōhannēs.
/ʒə.ɑ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jehan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,546, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1988, the peak
Jehan peaked in 1988, when 27 girls were given it, #3,511 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,128 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,551 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,446 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,973 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,546 | 7 | #10,217 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,134 | 10 | #7,854 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,224 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,257 | 6 | #11,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,627 | 8 | #9,108 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #11,339 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,983 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,650 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,194 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,075 | 8 | #9,373 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,017 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,894 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,313 | 8 | #8,654 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,941 | 6 | #10,564 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #9,099 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,579 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,461 | 6 | #9,822 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,346 | 8 | #7,780 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,368 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,119 | 5 | #10,355 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,356 | 5 | #9,483 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,436 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,052 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,438 | 7 | #6,997 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,890 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,975 | 6 | #7,554 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,654 | 6 | #7,387 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,511 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,410 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,914 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,478 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,017 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,976 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,591 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,072 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,012 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,707 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,972 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,506 | 5 | #6,286 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,001 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jehan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 503 Americans recorded as Jehan, 69% are girls and 31% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jehan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jehan, and how old are they?
An estimated 491 Americans named Jehan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 17 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,016 people named Jehan (727 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 470 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 485,823 babies since 1880, Jehan is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 311 babies (2.3%), the fourth 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 Jehan
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 Jehan and names like it
- Compare Jehan and JeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJehan peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jehan since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Jehan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jehan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jehan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.