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Girl's name · #2130 in the US (2025) · Vintage
34% girls · 66% boys — For most of its history Jean was overwhelmingly a girls' name; since around 1992 most babies named Jean have been boys. Jean →
Jean belongs to an older America first — it reached #12 back in 1926 — yet it still appears in today's records at #2130. About 458,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 3 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#397 in N. Ireland (2025) · #632 in Scotland (2025) · #885 in Ireland (2025) · #2,605 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,730 in Canada (2025) · #2,300 in Sweden (2023) · #8,318 in Ecuador (2022) · #2,471 in Austria (2011) · #4,237 in France (2005) · #550 in Puerto Rico (2002) · #329 in New Zealand (1994) · #100 in Australia (NSW) (1952).
Among 18,589 notable people named Jean:
Lawyers & judges appear 3.12× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jean Galloway Bissell, American judge (1936–1990).
Similar names: Betty · Jeanette · Juanita · Judy · Joann · Ann
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