How popular is “Jean” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jean” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jean” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jean” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jean” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jean” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jean” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jean” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	71	0.000352385	59	12	66%
1881	53	0.000275056	44	9	66%
1882	72	0.000325008	60	12	67%
1883	102	0.000470163	83	19	63%
1884	128	0.000525752	103	25	61%
1885	116	0.00048162	99	17	71%
1886	135	0.000528757	124	11	84%
1887	133	0.000537608	112	21	68%
1888	159	0.000530931	145	14	82%
1889	183	0.000633336	171	12	87%
1890	175	0.000580622	160	15	83%
1891	198	0.000690682	181	17	83%
1892	213	0.000637011	194	19	82%
1893	230	0.000707207	215	15	87%
1894	261	0.000770616	242	19	85%
1895	251	0.000715059	232	19	85%
1896	282	0.000788847	255	27	81%
1897	278	0.000801252	258	20	86%
1898	362	0.000948998	341	21	88%
1899	331	0.000975728	318	13	92%
1900	495	0.00109937	473	22	91%
1901	360	0.001041028	329	31	83%
1902	430	0.001111878	408	22	90%
1903	484	0.001269675	462	22	91%
1904	509	0.001261509	483	26	90%
1905	570	0.001344587	548	22	92%
1906	694	0.001619788	666	28	92%
1907	810	0.001740476	770	40	90%
1908	883	0.001807023	852	31	93%
1909	963	0.001883714	940	23	95%
1910	1290	0.002183809	1246	44	93%
1911	1425	0.002211778	1381	44	94%
1912	2146	0.002171929	2056	90	92%
1913	2645	0.002326072	2545	100	92%
1914	3394	0.00239631	3281	113	93%
1915	4765	0.002600378	4603	162	93%
1916	5243	0.002710377	5081	162	94%
1917	5879	0.002929613	5692	187	94%
1918	6826	0.003144013	6600	226	93%
1919	7023	0.00332805	6799	224	94%
1920	7991	0.00353171	7714	277	93%
1921	8883	0.003805089	8592	291	93%
1922	9398	0.004105443	9109	289	94%
1923	9818	0.004264096	9511	307	94%
1924	11056	0.004642238	10721	335	94%
1925	11901	0.005100497	11598	303	95%
1926	12466	0.005429667	12168	298	95%
1927	12775	0.00550799	12512	263	96%
1928	12536	0.005544601	12209	327	95%
1929	12153	0.005543845	11865	288	95%
1930	12274	0.005520653	11986	288	95%
1931	11299	0.005369257	11013	286	95%
1932	10910	0.005167454	10670	240	96%
1933	10170	0.005086407	9966	204	96%
1934	9896	0.004764986	9718	178	96%
1935	9047	0.004328915	8852	195	96%
1936	8715	0.004194788	8536	179	96%
1937	8548	0.004011883	8392	156	96%
1938	7930	0.003584061	7764	166	96%
1939	7449	0.00338062	7292	157	96%
1940	8215	0.003567574	8064	151	96%
1941	7992	0.003280216	7840	152	96%
1942	8414	0.00308	8257	157	96%
1943	8259	0.002926068	8096	163	96%
1944	7822	0.002907721	7650	172	96%
1945	7584	0.002858747	7428	156	96%
1946	8707	0.002724934	8555	152	97%
1947	9096	0.002525038	8940	156	97%
1948	7924	0.002295136	7774	150	96%
1949	7924	0.002273891	7760	164	96%
1950	7597	0.002168491	7432	165	96%
1951	7769	0.002108999	7627	142	96%
1952	7657	0.002016058	7511	146	96%
1953	7692	0.001996033	7571	121	97%
1954	7824	0.001965479	7665	159	96%
1955	7631	0.001900585	7480	151	96%
1956	7344	0.001781211	7174	170	95%
1957	7215	0.001716981	7049	166	95%
1958	6666	0.001612519	6520	146	96%
1959	6385	0.001535597	6234	151	95%
1960	5784	0.001392455	5639	145	95%
1961	5523	0.001333317	5366	157	94%
1962	5016	0.001243008	4879	137	95%
1963	4634	0.001170734	4483	151	93%
1964	4262	0.001096305	4097	165	92%
1965	3564	0.000983051	3365	199	89%
1966	3120	0.000897673	2919	201	87%
1967	2753	0.000810923	2546	207	85%
1968	2310	0.000683753	2079	231	80%
1969	2144	0.000616921	1908	236	78%
1970	2384	0.000661026	2111	273	77%
1971	2070	0.000603084	1776	294	72%
1972	1528	0.000486161	1300	228	70%
1973	1335	0.000442509	1110	225	66%
1974	1190	0.000391448	960	230	61%
1975	1076	0.000356363	883	193	64%
1976	1029	0.000339123	812	217	58%
1977	945	0.000297498	765	180	62%
1978	834	0.000262771	652	182	56%
1979	864	0.000259693	658	206	52%
1980	896	0.000260124	682	214	52%
1981	846	0.000244553	605	241	43%
1982	874	0.000249148	603	271	38%
1983	805	0.000232435	525	280	30%
1984	787	0.000225582	519	268	32%
1985	716	0.00020061	466	250	30%
1986	660	0.000185546	400	260	21%
1987	664	0.000184157	381	283	15%
1988	618	0.000167251	329	289	6%
1989	610	0.00015867	348	262	14%
1990	622	0.00015737	265	357	-15%
1991	580	0.000148899	274	306	-6%
1992	575	0.00014969	211	364	-27%
1993	642	0.000170279	214	428	-33%
1994	486	0.000130728	189	297	-22%
1995	450	0.000122878	159	291	-29%
1996	380	0.00010419	140	240	-26%
1997	386	0.000106461	137	249	-29%
1998	341	0.000092708	151	190	-11%
1999	355	0.000096105	109	246	-39%
2000	410	0.000108468	118	292	-42%
2001	400	0.000106855	112	288	-44%
2002	349	0.000093358	87	262	-50%
2003	356	0.000093627	89	267	-50%
2004	371	0.000097097	77	294	-58%
2005	322	0.000083748	80	242	-50%
2006	372	0.00009403	73	299	-61%
2007	327	0.000081797	86	241	-47%
2008	283	0.000071998	61	222	-57%
2009	256	0.000067013	46	210	-64%
2010	341	0.000092268	69	272	-60%
2011	267	0.000072995	58	209	-57%
2012	249	0.000068082	59	190	-53%
2013	248	0.000068026	63	185	-49%
2014	261	0.000070419	77	184	-41%
2015	221	0.000059715	67	154	-39%
2016	257	0.000070052	75	182	-42%
2017	235	0.000065712	73	162	-38%
2018	224	0.000063711	76	148	-32%
2019	233	0.000067129	90	143	-23%
2020	197	0.000058972	75	122	-24%
2021	191	0.000056376	83	108	-13%
2022	208	0.000061481	73	135	-30%
2023	219	0.000066139	67	152	-39%
2024	259	0.000077813	75	184	-42%

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