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Jeane

Girls' name

Variant of Jean

Jeane has been given to 4,504 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1924, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Jeane, 2017

1 in 511,000

Jeane over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeane: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jean

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeane means

Jeane is a variant of Jean.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jeane is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒiːn/ for Jeane.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Jeane is a variant of Jean. Jean has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jean.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,488 girls were recorded with the name Jeane between 1888 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 153 in 1924; its best national rank was #602 in 1924.

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Jeane between 1923 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,293 in 1927.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jeane?

Jeane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeane was born before 1932 — so the typical Jeane is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,233
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1920s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (1,313).

Is Jeane 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 1924 (153)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#602
1924

Spellings of Jeane

Jeane is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 13.1% against Jeane's 0.11%.

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 Jeane is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeane was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 92,320 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jeane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeane around the world

Where Jeane 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.

  • Ireland
    1964–1964
    #372
    in 1964
  • France
    1901–2025
    #5,462
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1950–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jeane

People whose public names include Jeane, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jeane in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jeane. Linked forms have their own page here.

JeanneJehane

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jeane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#602
1924
Peak year
1924
153 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
4,488
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,293
1927
Peak year
1923
8 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JeanaLianeJeannaLaneZhaneJeanieRoxaneArianeShaneJeanelleJeanineJeaneneJulianeAlaneJeannieJeaniJeanettaSloaneDeaneAkaneJoaneJeaneaneJeannineAyane

Names with a curve like Jeane

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jeane, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OuidaWalterTomasaHaroldLavernaEleaseRomaineSantosHenryLarueArthurLavada

Sibling names for Jeane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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