Jeannie

Where Jeannie comes from

From Jean + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jeannie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1949
    Jeannie Berlin born
    American actress
  3. 1957
    Peak, #222
    1,424 babies named Jeannie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1958
    Jeannie Longo born
    French cyclist
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #357.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Jean.
Namesakes
  • Jeannie Longo · French cyclist, born 1958
  • Jeannie Berlin · American actress, born 1949
  • Jeannie Pepper · American adult film actress, born 1958
  • Jeannie C. Riley · American singer, born 1945
  • Jeannie Hsieh · Taiwanese singer, born 1974

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.

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