In 2025, 30 US girls were named Jeanne, making it the 4,601st most common girls’ name of the year, down 274 places from #4,327 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 33 girls named Jeanne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #83, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,364, in 1947. For comparison, it was #3,803 in 2015 and #95 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeanne in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 163,609 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 37,736 babies named Jeanne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 377 US girls were named Jeanne; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jean (483,475 babies since 1880), Jane (381,009 babies since 1880), Juanita (208,675 babies since 1880) and Jeanette (163,977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zhanna and Jianne are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jane and Jeannie.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.