Jeannine
Feminine · “God is gracious”
Jeannine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 24,066 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Jeannine is a French diminutive of a French diminutive. Jean gave Jeanne, Jeanne gave Jeannine — each step adding an ending, and all of them resting on the commonest man's name in medieval Europe.
How old is the name Jeannine?
Jeannine first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Jeannine alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 17,000 people named Jeannine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeannine most popular?
Jeannine peaked in 1929, reaching #172 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 9,935 places below that high. See the whole 1929 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yohanan to Jeannine
The story of Jeannine
John was the most-given name in medieval Europe, and French built an unusually large family on it: Jean, Jeanne, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jeanine. English-speaking countries borrowed several of these at once in the twentieth century, when French spellings carried a particular polish in American naming. Jeannine peaked in America in the mid-1950s, alongside Jeanne, Jeannette and Jeanette.
Meaning
God is gracious
From the Hebrew Yohanan, 'the Lord is gracious', through the Latin Johannes and the French Jean and Jeanne. The -ine ending is a French diminutive suffix carrying affection rather than meaning, the same one in Josephine and Christine.
How the name formed
- Yohanan
- Johannes
- Jean
- Jeanne
- Jeannine
Related forms: Jeannine · Jeanine · Giovanna · Juana
Pronouncing Jeannine
juh-NEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. French gives the first syllable a rounder vowel; English tends to reduce it almost to nothing.
Nicknames for Jeannine
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 1964620 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #172reached in 1929
- Change vs 2023
- +50.0%9 in 2025, from 6
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.
Jeannine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jeannine in French — same name
- Jeanine in French — spelling variant
- Giovanna in Italian — related form
- Juana in Spanish — related form
Jeannines among us
people named Jeannine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jeannine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jeannine
- #10107
- Jeannine on the 2025 chart
- #942
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jeannine went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jeanine 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.
- Jeanine9
- Jeannine9
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jeannine 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 Cleo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jeannine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cleo climbed just as high around 1907, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cleo's path sketches the road Jeannine is walking now.
Jeannine 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
Jeannine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jeannine 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.
- The end stress is uncommon in English and gives the name a distinct rhythm.
- Jean and Nina are both available and could hardly be more different.
- Jeannine and Jeanine are both established French spellings.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeannines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 17,000 people named Jeannine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jeannine?
- Jeannine is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jeanine is the more common one — 9 births in 2025 against 9 for Jeannine.
- How popular is the name Jeannine in 2025?
- Jeannine ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jeannine?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jeannine — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jeannine with classmates?
- Jeannine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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