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Jeanine

Feminine · “God is gracious”

Jeanine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 23,815 girls against 11 boys since 1880.

1916high 1960
#10107 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare9 girls in 2025

Jeanine is Jeanne with a French diminutive — the feminine of Jean, which is French for John, which is Hebrew for God is gracious. Three languages, one sentence.

How old is the name Jeanine?

Jeanine first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Jeanine alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 20,000 people named Jeanine are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Jeanine most popular?

Jeanine peaked in 1960, reaching #323 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 9,784 places below that high. See the whole 1960 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Jeanine

Jeanne d'Arc made the French feminine famous across Europe, and French diminutives multiplied — Jeannette, Jeanine, Jeannine. American families took them up in the twentieth century and respelled them freely. Jeanine appears in the registers from the 1920s and peaked around 1949, alongside Jeannine which ran with it.

Meaning

God is gracious

Through Jeanne and John, from the Hebrew Yochanan — Yah, the divine name, and chanan, 'he was gracious'. French Jeanne is the feminine of Jean, and -ine is a French diminutive suffix. The Hebrew is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.

How the name formed

  1. Yochanan
  2. Jeanne
  3. Jeanine

Related forms: Jeannine · Janine · Janine

Pronouncing Jeanine

juh-NEEN

Two syllables, stress on the second. Jeanine, Jeannine and Janine are said identically.

Nicknames for Jeanine

Moderate

JeanieThe front stretched, and a registered name in its own right
NinaTaken from the back of the name, and a name of its own across Europe
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1916–20258504250850919162025

US babies named Jeanine per year from 1916 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#3231910s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1916
Most girls named
1960850 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#323reached in 1960
Change vs 2023
−25.0%9 in 2025, from 12
Jeanine sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1960, with 850 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Jeanine in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Jeannine in French — spelling variant
  • Janine in English — spelling variant
  • Janine in Dutch — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.

Jeanines among us

20,000

people named Jeanine are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jeanine

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Jeanine

#10107
Jeanine on the 2025 chart
#942
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeanine went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jeannine is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 18, which makes it the 942nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,165 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jeanine itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Marlys test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeanine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlys climbed just as high around 1936, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlys's path sketches the road Jeanine is walking now.

40%chance Jeanine will feel dated by 2040
Jeanine, aligned on its peakMarlys· peak 1936not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+70 yrsMarlys · #14472Jeanine today
Jeanine today is about where Marlys stood in 2001 — 65 years past a #323-sized peak. By 2016, Marlys had settled around #14119.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Jeanine sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Jeanine beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Jeanine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Jeaninethis name9#10107Berta9#10107Jettie9#10107Maye9#10107Osa9#10107

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The meaning is a complete statement and is undisputed.
  • It belongs to the largest name family in European history.
  • The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
What to consider
  • At least three spellings of the sound are in common use.
  • It will be respelled by other people constantly.
  • It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century.

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Frequently asked

How many Jeanines are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 20,000 people named Jeanine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Jeanine?
Jeanine is the most-used spelling in US records — 9 of the 18 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jeannine.
How popular is the name Jeanine in 2025?
Jeanine ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Jeanine?
About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jeanine — 9 in all.
Will my child share the name Jeanine with classmates?
Jeanine will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Jeanine

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Berta#10107 · Jettie#10107 · Maye#10107 · Osa#10107 · Fidelia#10107 · Alysa#10107 · Su#10107 · Willie#10107

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