Jeanine

Where Jeanine comes from

The dictionaries list Jeanine as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #2,833 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #323
    850 babies named Jeanine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1967
    Jeanine Áñez born
    Bolivian politician and Former President of Bolivia
  4. 1973
    Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert born
    Dutch former politician and diplomat
  5. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #491.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Jeanine Áñez · Bolivian politician and Former President of Bolivia, born 1967
  • Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert · Dutch former politician and diplomat, born 1973
  • Jeanine Rema · Burundian musician, born 1959
  • Jeanine Mason · American dancer, born 1991
  • Jeanine Meerapfel · German-Argentine film director, screenwriter and film lecturer, born 1943

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.