Entry № 4874 · French origin

Jean Jean — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"God is gracious (Jean Harlow, Jean Stafford)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "god is gracious (jean harlow, jean stafford)".

Jean is the medieval Scottish-English feminine of John — from the Hebrew Yochanan ("God is gracious"). Died at 26 of kidney failure.

God is gracious.

The name in its native script.

Jean
Transliteration
Jean
Pronunciation
/ dʒiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jean stands.

Jean does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jeans before her.

Real people
Jean Harlow
American actress.
1911 – 1937
Jean Stafford
American Pulitzer novelist.
1915 – 1979
Jean Rhys
Dominican-British novelist.
1890 – 1979
In fiction
Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea.
1966

Names connected to Jean.

The number behind Jean.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jean reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.