Jean
Jean is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 75 births. Its best rank was 12th, in 1926, 1928–1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 750.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192712,512 births
- Best rank
- #12first in 1926
- Since 1880
- 483,213people given the name
The story in the numbers
458,350 girls have been named Jean in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 12,512 births — 1.0% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 75 births in 2024, against 12,512 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 115 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 24,863 boys have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jean | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,000 | |
| 1890s | 2,396 | |
| 1900s | 5,931 | |
| 1910s | 39,284 | |
| 1920s | 105,999 | |
| 1930s | 94,189 | |
| 1940s | 80,364 | |
| 1950s | 72,263 | |
| 1960s | 37,281 | |
| 1970s | 11,027 | |
| 1980s | 4,858 | |
| 1990s | 1,849 | |
| 2000s | 829 | |
| 2010s | 707 | |
| 2020s | 373 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Jean was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Jean
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bernapeak 1929
- Earlinepeak 1927
- Lupepeak 1927
- Lorrainepeak 1928
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Eloispeak 1935
- Loispeak 1927
- Margiepeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.