Jayne

Where Jayne comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jayne.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Jayne through the years
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,592 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Jayne Mansfield born
    American actress
  3. 1956
    Peak, #212
    1,470 babies named Jayne, its best rank.
  4. 1959
    Jayne Atkinson born
    British actress
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #393.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a 20th-century spelling of Jane.
Namesakes
  • Jayne Mansfield · American actress, 1933–1967
  • Jayne Atkinson · British actress, born 1959
  • Jayne Torvill · English ice skater, born 1957
  • Jayne Meadows · Chinese born-American actress and author, 1919–2015
  • Jayne Brook · American actress, born 1960

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.