In 2025, 9 US girls were named Jeannine, making it the 10,458th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,106 places from #11,564 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Jeannine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #172, reached in 1929. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,183. For comparison, it was #17,630 in 2015 and #453 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeannine in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 13 babies. In all, 24,072 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 5,437 babies named Jeannine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 70 US girls were named Jeannine; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeanine (23,826 babies since 1880), Jeanene (2,425 babies since 1880) and Jenine (2,263 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeannene, Jeananne and Jeanenne are summarised on this page.
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.