Jeanna

Where Jeanna comes from

Jeanna 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. 1840
    Jeanna Bauck born
    Swedish painter
  2. 1926
    First appearance
    #4,851 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1964
    Jeanna Fine born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 1970
    Peak, #584
    299 babies named Jeanna — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,111.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jeanna Fine · American pornographic actress, 1964–2025
  • Jeanna Bauck · Swedish painter, 1840–1926
  • Jeanna Oterdahl · Swedish schoolteacher and writer, 1879–1965
  • Jeanna Giese · first patient known to have survived symptomatic rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine, born 1989
  • Jeanna Falk · Swedish dancer and dance teacher, 1901–1980

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.