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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Jean m for the male version.
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling and English/Scottish form of Jeanne [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Jeanne
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeanin
|
Partitive: |
Jeania
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jean
|
Genitive: |
Jeans
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
- English: [dʒiːn] (key)
- French: [ʒan] (key)
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 137 people were named Jean f (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [9]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[10] |
|
1306 |
3740 |
160 |
693 |
1146 |
3047 |
Denmark[11] |
|
987 |
n.a. |
291 |
n.a. |
696 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
1942 |
n.a. |
327 |
n.a. |
1615 |
Iceland[13] |
|
15 |
64 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[14] |
|
3 |
13 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
570 |
n.a. |
127 |
n.a. |
443 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[10][11][15][12]:
Sources: [10] [11] [15] [12]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Jean (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no