Is Jean a male or female name?
Jean is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 95% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 81%
- Sample size
- 2,418,610
- Confidence
- high
Jean by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 100% | 1,910,805 | insee |
| United States US | female | 95% | 483,198 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | male | 99% | 15,459 | bfs |
| Canada CA | male | 88% | 3,295 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 98% | 2,479 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | female | 73% | 1,247 | ons |
| Spain ES | male | 56% | 916 | ine |
| Poland PL | male | 92% | 757 | pesel |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 394 | ssb |
| Austria AT | male | 97% | 60 | statat |
Attested in 88 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Jean over time
In the United States, 86.8% of the babies named Jean in the 1880s were girls, against 34.5% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Jean in the 1900s were girls, against 0% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87% | 1,152 | — | |
| 1890s | 93% | 2,581 | — | |
| 1900s | 96% | 6,198 | 0% | 174,655 |
| 1910s | 97% | 40,636 | 0% | 175,335 |
| 1920s | 97% | 108,977 | 0% | 303,870 |
| 1930s | 98% | 96,232 | 0% | 339,780 |
| 1940s | 98% | 81,938 | 0% | 420,165 |
| 1950s | 98% | 73,781 | 0% | 276,160 |
| 1960s | 95% | 39,107 | 0% | 121,350 |
| 1970s | 83% | 13,256 | 0% | 37,375 |
| 1980s | 65% | 7,475 | 0% | 28,305 |
| 1990s | 38% | 4,817 | 0% | 13,190 |
| 2000s | 24% | 3,443 | 0% | 9,090 |
| 2010s | 28% | 2,536 | 0% | 7,990 |
| 2020s | 34% | 1,069 | 0% | 3,540 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Jean with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Jean
Is Jean a male or female name?
Jean is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 95% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Jean change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Jean identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.