Jeana

Where Jeana comes from

Jeana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #5,009 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Jeana Yeager born
    American aviator
  3. 1955
    Jeana Keough born
    American playmate and actor
  4. 1971
    Peak, #671
    231 babies named Jeana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,285.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jeana Yeager · American aviator, born 1952
  • Jeana Keough · American playmate and actor, born 1955
  • Jeana Smith · American YouTuber, born 1983

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.