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The name Jean is a variation of Joan. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jean has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jean**
Use of the Name Jean for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
455,499	88,768	5,986	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jean has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jean**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	203	59	547	12
1881	237	44	626	9
1882	223	60	560	12
1883	183	83	408	19
1884	173	103	357	25
1885	189	99	451	17
1886	182	124	585	11
1887	187	112	363	21
1888	185	145	541	14
1889	173	171	567	12
1890	187	160	498	15
1891	178	181	437	17
1892	182	194	454	19
1893	171	215	488	15
1894	167	242	449	19
1895	177	232	465	19
1896	173	256	376	27
1897	172	258	429	20
1898	147	341	443	21
1899	147	318	565	13
1900	132	476	524	21
1901	148	331	320	31
1902	138	407	445	22
1903	121	462	440	22
1904	123	482	414	26
1905	115	548	485	22
1906	100	666	415	28
1907	96	770	344	40
1908	91	850	435	31
1909	90	938	548	23
1910	77	1,244	399	44
1911	74	1,376	439	44
1912	64	2,052	411	90
1913	60	2,541	428	100
1914	54	3,277	451	113
1915	48	4,604	424	162
1916	45	5,078	439	162
1917	40	5,684	413	187
1918	37	6,592	397	226
1919	37	6,806	392	224
1920	33	7,709	353	278
1921	25	8,589	354	286
1922	20	9,112	348	291
1923	19	9,500	333	305
1924	16	10,731	313	337
1925	14	11,592	332	303
1926	12	12,161	335	298
1927	14	12,503	360	261
1928	12	12,200	307	329
1929	12	11,861	326	287
1930	14	11,969	327	287
1931	13	11,012	323	286
1932	15	10,671	360	240
1933	14	9,956	382	204
1934	16	9,708	415	180
1935	18	8,849	392	194
1936	20	8,536	411	179
1937	23	8,390	449	156
1938	27	7,755	448	166
1939	32	7,285	459	157
1940	29	8,061	472	150
1941	32	7,834	477	151
1942	36	8,264	491	157
1943	36	8,080	487	160
1944	37	7,630	465	173
1945	38	7,432	483	156
1946	37	8,534	522	149
1947	40	8,930	542	153
1948	47	7,761	539	153
1949	45	7,760	522	163
1950	47	7,437	525	165
1951	49	7,609	585	139
1952	50	7,517	574	147
1953	52	7,560	646	121
1954	56	7,652	586	159
1955	60	7,480	598	150
1956	65	7,175	585	168
1957	67	7,048	593	167
1958	73	6,513	629	148
1959	77	6,239	630	151
1960	86	5,642	649	144
1961	92	5,363	631	156
1962	95	4,881	671	134
1963	97	4,484	639	151
1964	100	4,102	610	165
1965	112	3,364	544	199
1966	123	2,920	540	199
1967	135	2,557	520	206
1968	159	2,075	497	231
1969	167	1,909	508	234
1970	159	2,112	489	274
1971	173	1,780	476	289
1972	212	1,301	523	227
1973	229	1,113	523	225
1974	261	960	525	228
1975	273	881	583	193
1976	282	808	551	215
1977	310	766	626	180
1978	334	654	618	181
1979	353	655	598	205
1980	348	680	594	213
1981	379	605	547	238
1982	383	601	516	270
1983	411	525	505	276
1984	412	516	523	267
1985	461	460	559	248
1986	520	397	553	258
1987	533	377	538	284
1988	610	328	536	289
1989	611	348	606	262
1990	771	266	520	358
1991	756	273	579	305
1992	927	210	533	361
1993	905	212	489	428
1994	989	188	608	296
1995			603	290
1996			683	239
1997			660	249
1998			807	188
1999			683	246
2000			628	291
2001			653	285
2002			694	259
2003			704	266
2004			680	292
Totals:		455,499		21,053

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jean as a girl's name about 95% of the time and less frequently (about 4% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jean appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 115 times during the last 125 years.

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