Given name
Jeannine
“God is gracious”
In English use, Jeannine is a diminutive of Jean. In French use, Jean carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Original FrenchJeanne
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Jeannine is a diminutive of Jean. In French use, Jean carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French use, Jeannine is used as a diminutive of Jeanne.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jeannine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24,072
- 6 boys · 24,066 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 1,189 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,458 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- 0%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,458 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 1,183 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 18,843 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jeannine’s family of names
In English usage, Jeannine is a diminutive of Jean. In English usage, Jeannine shares an earlier linguistic root with Janet. In French usage, Jeannine has a related form in Jeanne.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jeannine has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jeannine
- Etchika ChoureauFrench actress1929–2022
- Jeannine GmelinSwiss rowerborn 1990
- Jeannine TaylorAmerican actressborn 1954
- Jeannine RileyAmerican actressborn 1940
- Jeannine OppewallAmerican film art directorborn 1946
- Jeannine AltmeyerAmerican singerborn 1948
- Jeannine GramickAmerican Religious Sister and LGBT advocateborn 1942
- Jeannine MukanirwaCongolese women's rights activistborn 1965
- Jeannine AuboyerFrench curator (1912-1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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