Jeannie
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Jeannie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 36,115 girls against 55 boys since 1880.
Jeannie is Jeanne with an affectionate ending — French at the root, Scottish in the ending, and known to most English speakers through a song written in 1854 about light brown hair.
How old is the name Jeannie?
Jeannie first appears in US birth records in 1882 — 143 years ago. The typical Jeannie alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 29,500 people named Jeannie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeannie most popular?
Jeannie peaked in 1957, reaching #222 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 6,616 places below that high. See the whole 1957 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Jeannie
The story of Jeannie
John was the most-given man's name in medieval Europe and every language built feminines on it: Joan and Jane in English, Jeanne in French, Jean in Scotland — where Jean was the standard woman's name and Jeanie or Jeannie its familiar form. A Stephen Foster song of 1854 made Jeanie known across America, and the name was in steady use through the following century, peaking in the mid-1950s.
Meaning
God is gracious
From the Hebrew Yohanan, 'the Lord is gracious', through the Latin Johannes and the French Jean and Jeanne. The -ie ending is an affectionate suffix carrying no meaning of its own, used the same way in Scottish Annie, Maggie and Katie.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Johannes
- Jean
- Jeannie
Related forms: Jean · Jeanne · Jeanie · Giovanna
Pronouncing Jeannie
JEE-nee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jeannie and Jeanie are said identically.
Nicknames for Jeannie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1882
- Most girls named
- 19571,424 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #222reached in 1957
- Change vs 2022
- −30.4%16 in 2025, from 23
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.
Jeannie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jean in Scottish — related form
- Jeanne in French — related form
- Jeanie in English — spelling variant
- Giovanna in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jeannies among us
people named Jeannie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Jeannie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeannie
- #6838
- Jeannie on the 2025 chart
- #923
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeannie went to 16 girls in 2025, but Jeanie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 923rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,915 places above the chart.
- Jeanie21
- Jeannie16
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,454 for Jeannie 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Therese test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeannie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Therese climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Therese's path sketches the road Jeannie is walking now.
Jeannie 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
Jeannie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeannie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sits inside the largest name family in Europe, with cousins in every language.
- Jean is available as a plainer parent form with a long Scottish record.
- Warm and easy to say in every English accent.
- The homophone with the wish-granting spirit of the lamp is unavoidable.
- Two spellings are established and neither is dominant.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeannies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 29,500 people named Jeannie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeannie?
- Jeannie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jeanie is the more common one — 21 births in 2025 against 16 for Jeannie.
- How popular is the name Jeannie in 2025?
- Jeannie ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeannie?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Jeannie — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeannie with classmates?
- Jeannie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jeannie
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