Jehan — unisex name
347 babies named Jehan in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Jehan was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Jehan in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jehan
The Social Security Administration has registered 347 babies named Jehan between 1976 and 2019, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jehan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Jehan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 149 additional births since 1977.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jehan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 139 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jehan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jehan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jehan 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 347 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.
Jehan at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jehan popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1976
- Peak year (1988)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 44 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
347 total births across 44 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 27 births in a single year.
Jehan popularity over time — boys
149 total births recorded since 1977 (Jehan as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Jehan accounts for 30% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jehan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 139 births that decade — 40% of Jehan's all-time total
Jehan decade highlights
- Peak decade 139 births
- Runner-up 60 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jehan's strongest decade
139 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Jehan by state
Where Jehan concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 8 | 2.3% |
8 of 347 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.