Jean

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jean is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Yôḥānān, meaning 'God has granted grace'; also an Anglo-Saxon form of Geoffrey, from Germanic Godefroy.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Jean: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Jean
  1. HebrewYôḥānān●
  2. GermanicGodefroy●

From Hebrew Yôḥānān, meaning 'God has granted grace'; also an Anglo-Saxon form of Geoffrey, from Germanic Godefroy.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jean is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French9.4M44%
  • English7M33%
  • Portuguese2.4M11%
  • Spanish908K4%
  • 555K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French9,444,36744%
English7,025,08233%
Portuguese2,433,10011%
Spanish907,7074%
555,4663%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jean is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name644K records spelled Jean5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Jèan, Jéan

  • Swahili given name44K records spelled Jean6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, rn

    Also written Jéan

  • Indonesian given name36K records spelled Jean7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Filipino

    Also written Je-An, 'Jean, Jéan, Jëäň

  • Hindi given name35K records spelled Jean8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jéan, Jeán, Jèan, Jêän

  • Russian given name35K records spelled Jean36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Жан, Чжань, Жань, Jehan, Жеан

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name33K records spelled Jean3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Jeàn

  • Vietnamese given name23K records spelled Jean2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, United Kingdom, Belgium

  • Thai given name19K records spelled Jean140 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao, Malay

    Also written ยูนุ, ยูนุ๊, Yeen, Yin, ยืน

  • Hungarian given name19K records spelled Jean2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Romania, United States, United Kingdom

140 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jean is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, French form of Hebrew Yôḥānān ‘Yahweh is gracious’; used in the text as a father’s name in patronymics.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In French, From Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'; St Jean-Baptiste.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, (i) from Jehan, a form of John; first attested William Gene 1275 RH (Sf). (ii) from Genoa; first attested Henry, Francis de Gene 1255 RH (St), 1309 LLB D

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In French, French form; became Gioan, Giannetti, Giovanni in Italy, Jans in Holland, Johanne/Hans/Hanns in Germany, John in England.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In French, French male given name; base form from which variants and surnames are made.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200013K · 1927

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Jean in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188059
188144
188260
188383
1884103
188599
1886124
1887112
1888145
1889171
1890160
1891181
1892194
1893215
1894242
1895232
1896255
1897258
1898341
1899318
1900473
1901329
1902408
1903462
1904483
1905548
1906666
1907770
1908852
1909940
19101,246
19111,381
19122,056
19132,545
19143,281
19154,603
19165,081
19175,692
19186,600
19196,799
19207,714
19218,592
19229,109
19239,511
192410,721
192511,598
192612,168
192712,512
192812,209
192911,865
193011,986
193111,013
193210,670
19339,966
19349,718
19358,852
19368,536
19378,392
19387,764
19397,292
19408,063
19417,840
19428,257
19438,096
19447,650
19457,429
19468,554
19478,940
19487,774
19497,760
19507,432
19517,627
19527,511
19537,571
19547,665
19557,480
19567,175
19577,048
19586,521
19596,233
19605,639
19615,366
19624,877
19634,485
19644,097
19653,364
19662,919
19672,546
19682,079
19691,908
19702,112
19711,776
19721,300
19731,109
1974960
1975883
1976812
1977765
1978652
1979658
1980682
1981605
1982603
1983525
1984519
1985466
1986400
1987381
1988329
1989348
1990357
1991306
1992364
1993428
1994297
1995291
1996240
1997249
1998190
1999246
2000292
2001288
2002262
2003267
2004294
2005242
2006299
2007241
2008222
2009210
2010272
2011209
2012190
2013185
2014184
2015154
2016182
2017162
2018148
2019143
2020122
2021108
2022135
2023152
2024185
2025176

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Jean-Honoré Fragonard, b. 1732Agassiz, b. 1807Jean Jaurès, b. 1859Jean Perrin, b. 1870Jean Piaget, b. 1896Frédéric Joliot-Curie, b. 1900Jean Chrétien, b. 1934François Bayrou, b. 1951Britney Spears, b. 1981Emma Stone, b. 1988
  • Jean-Honoré Fragonardb. 1732FRFrench painter (1732–1806)
  • Agassizb. 1807CHnot in their usual nameSwiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)
  • Jean Jaurèsb. 1859FRFrench / Occitan socialist leader (1859-1914)
  • Jean Perrinb. 1870FRFrench physicist (1870–1942)
  • Jean Piagetb. 1896CHSwiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
  • Frédéric Joliot-Curieb. 1900FRnot in their usual nameFrench scientist (1900-1958)
  • Jean Chrétienb. 1934CAprime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003
  • François Bayroub. 1951FRnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of France (2024–2025)
  • Britney Spearsb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter, actress and model (born 1981)
  • Emma Stoneb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 148 sources across 82 countries.

Official registers attesting Jean
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.9M#114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020228K#198
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022172K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—170K#193
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—160K#314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202042K#198
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202437K#61
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202025K#1,401
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201021K#1,703
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200015K#2,172
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6.6K#107
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4K#705

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2,145 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jean?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Jean (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Jean have the most bearers?
Jean is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Jean compared with other names?
In Argentina, Jean is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Jean a male or female name?
Jean is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jean mean?
Recorded meaning: From Hebrew Yôḥānān, meaning 'God has granted grace'; also an Anglo-Saxon form of Geoffrey, from Germanic Godefroy.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jean” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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