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Jeanmarc vs Jeannie

American parents have registered 36,170 Jeannies since 1880, against 169 Jeanmarcs. Jeannie is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeanmarc against Jeannie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeanmarc Jeannie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jeannie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Jeanmarc had 6 and Jeannie had 24.

Side by side

  Jeanmarc Jeannie
Total US births 16936,170
Most in one year 111,430
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 16029,000
Median age today 3461
Peak year 19711957
Best rank 2,973rd boys222nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked6,838th
First recorded 19641882
Girls / boys 0 / 16936,115 / 55

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jeannies alive today are over 61; half the Jeanmarcs are over 34. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jeanmarc and Jeannie.