Gean
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gean has been given to 1,234 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 54% girls, 46% boys all-time.
Babies named Gean, 1971
1 in 572,000
Gean over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Gean over time
In 2025, Gean went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Gean?
Gean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 572,000
- 6 of 3,432,187 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 277,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 396,503 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 396,503 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Geans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gean was born before 1933 — so the typical Gean is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 27.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 116
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (187).
Is Gean rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1932 (26)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gean
Gean is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 22.6% against Gean's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Gean is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Gean was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gean around the world
Where Gean ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1966–1966#658in 1966
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Gean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.