Jeanne

given name · French · Latin script

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

Jeanne is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: French feminine of Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'; St Jeanne.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 120◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 217
  • AUAustralia1 in 305

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

≈948K ●

across 9 countries

#172 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
540 ●

10M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 120 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

JoanLatin · English●4.4M records
ג'ואןHebrew · Hebrew●4.2K records
โจแอนThai · Thai●72 records
조안Hangul · Korean●57 records
জোনBengali · Bangla●10 records
ᲯოანGeorgian · Georgian●8 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joan in US United States, CA Canada, PH Philippines and 11 more, Joanne in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, SG Singapore and 8 more and Joann in MX Mexico.

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●

French feminine of Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'; St Jeanne.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Jeanne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#27953,488831K rec.—8Joanne258
FR France#30565,855404K rec.1 in 120566KJeanne349
AU Australia#42379,873289K rec.—101Joanne273
US United States#50296,8307.6M rec.1 in 1.1K297KJoan540
CA Canada#43227,355219K rec.—4Joan213
PH Philippines#80186,684137K rec.——Joan149
IT Italy#14962,06064K rec.—1Joan74
ES Spain#53852,99348K rec.1 in 94454KJoan182
DE Germany#49733,07832K rec.—1Joan138
EG Egypt#24921,71021K rec.——Joan34
BE Belgium#6418,18430K rec.—170Jeanne90
IE Ireland#7416,81124K rec.——Joan124

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

Languages●

  • French2.3M52%
  • English1.6M36%
  • 96K2%
  • Portuguese72K2%
  • Spanish68K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French2,312,90152%
English1,600,50236%
96,1002%
Portuguese71,9232%
Spanish67,6252%

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◐

Jeanne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.9M records spelled Jeanne36 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Je-Anne, Jeanne', Jeanné, Jean'Ne, Jéanne

  • a separate given name109K records spelled Jeanne3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Jéanne, Jeanné

  • Hindi given name7.6K records spelled Jeanne55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Sinhala

    Also written Jinu, Jean, Jina, Jin, Zina

  • Indonesian given name7.4K records spelled Jeanne4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Madagascar, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malagasy, Malay

    Also written Je-Anne

  • Finnish given name4.9K records spelled Jeanne4 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jeanné

77 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●

Jeanne 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, From Hebrew Yôḥānān via Latin/Old French; means “God is merciful.”

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Female form of Jean, from Hebrew Yohanan, 'YHWH is gracious'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Female form of Jean, made by adding -ne to the masculine name.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In French, a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Féminin de Jean, du hébreu Yôḥānān, « Dieu fait grâce ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

02K4K6K1900195020004.4K · 1947

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Jeanne in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188012
188111
188212
188312
188418
188513
188622
188717
188819
188924
189030
189137
189228
189345
189443
189551
189649
189767
189858
189972
190076
190163
190277
190387
1904109
1905122
1906119
1907156
1908154
1909202
1910220
1911266
1912347
1913449
1914611
1915828
19161,050
19171,212
19181,846
19191,817
19202,279
19212,590
19222,917
19233,040
19243,150
19253,225
19263,063
19273,158
19282,879
19292,818
19302,720
19312,525
19322,131
19331,824
19341,763
19351,662
19361,534
19371,496
19381,552
19391,551
19401,927
19412,060
19422,288
19432,423
19442,495
19452,861
19464,045
19474,364
19483,789
19493,865
19503,736
19513,768
19523,827
19533,853
19543,770
19553,732
19563,910
19573,950
19583,609
19593,516
19603,505
19613,331
19623,013
19632,801
19642,467
19652,147
19661,866
19671,608
19681,424
19691,378
19701,582
19711,270
1972945
1973845
1974825
1975702
1976557
1977554
1978488
1979432
1980419
1981431
1982412
1983325
1984300
1985289
1986232
1987218
1988211
1989206
1990195
1991176
1992122
1993106
1994108
1995102
1996100
1997105
199895
199966
200076
200157
200272
200359
200468
200553
200648
200742
200847
200945
201040
201139
201242
201335
201435
201540
201636
201737
201847
201942
202040
202141
202231
202340
202433
202530

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●

12001400160018002000Joanna I of Naples, b. 1326Jeanne Calment, b. 1875Marguerite Yourcenar, b. 1903Jeanne Moreau, b. 1928Édith Cresson, b. 1934Bonnie J. Dunbar, b. 1949Annie Lennox, b. 1954Debbie Rowe, b. 1958Mylène Farmer, b. 1961Reese Witherspoon, b. 1976
  • Joanna I of Naplesb. 1326ITnot in their usual nameQueen of Naples (1326-1382)
  • Jeanne Calmentb. 1875FRFrench supercentenarian, person with the longest confirmed lifespan (1875–1997)
  • Marguerite Yourcenarb. 1903USnot in their usual nameFrench novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
  • Jeanne Moreaub. 1928FRFrench actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928-2017)
  • Édith Cressonb. 1934FRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992
  • Bonnie J. Dunbarb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican engineer and astronaut
  • Annie Lennoxb. 1954GBnot in their usual nameScottish singer-songwriter (born 1954)
  • Debbie Roweb. 1958USnot in their usual nameformer wife of Michael Jackson
  • Mylène Farmerb. 1961CAnot in their usual nameFrench singer and songwriter (born 1961)
  • Reese Witherspoonb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1976)

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 92 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Jeanne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024566K#22
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020104K#536
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20223.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.5K#3,490
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.1K#1,018
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.6K#5,066
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.8K#268
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911.2K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—532#2,653
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—523#2,117
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—490#2,555
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020236#85,336

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 961 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jeanne?
We estimate roughly 948 thousand people bear Jeanne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Jeanne have the most bearers?
Jeanne is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled joanne.
Where is Jeanne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jeanne is densest in France — about 1 in 120 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jeanne compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Jeanne is the 27th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Jeanne a male or female name?
Jeanne is a female 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 Jeanne mean?
Recorded meaning: French feminine of Jean, Hebrew Yohanan, 'God is gracious'; St Jeanne.
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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, “Jeanne” — the 27th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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