Janine

Where Janine comes from

From French Janine and Jeannine under influence from Jane, from Jeanne + -ine, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janine
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Janine through the years
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,876 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #231
    1,380 babies named Janine, the most in any year.
  3. 1962
    Janine Turner born
    American actress
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #367.
  5. 1978
    Janine Jansen born
    Dutch violinist and violist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Janine Jansen · Dutch violinist and violist, born 1978
  • Janine Turner · American actress, born 1962
  • Janine Lindemulder · American pornographic actress, born 1968
  • Janine Sonis · Canadian soccer player, born 1994
  • Janine Flock · Austrian skeleton racer, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.