Jean

The female given name is from a Middle English feminine form of John (sometimes considered Scottish), from Old French Jehane. The male given name is likely form or influenced by French Jean.

• enPR: jēn, IPA^(key): /dʒiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophones: gene, Gene

Jean

1. A female given name.
   • 1788, Robert Burns, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw:

     There's not a bonnie flower that springs / By fountain, shaw, or green, / There's not a bonnie bird that sings / But minds me o' my Jean.

   • 1866, Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power, Chapter II

     - - - Isn't Jean a pretty name?" "Not bad; but why don't you call her Miss Muir?" "She begged me not. She hates it, and loves to be called Jean, alone."

   • 1972, Anne Tyler, The Clock Winder, Knopf, 1972, page 67

     He was trying to think of her name; she had come to cook him dinner twice last spring. - - - Jean, maybe. Or Betty. One of these plain names.

2. A male given name
3. A surname​.
4. An unincorporated community in Nevada

• (diminutives) Jeanie, Jeannie
• Jane and its variants

• Jane, Jaén, Jena, jane

From English Jean, from a Middle English feminine form of John, from Old French Jehane.

Jean

1. a female given name

From Old French Jehan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן‎ (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Jean

1. John (biblical character).
2. John (book of the Bible).
3. A male given name, traditionally very popular in France, also common as the first part of hyphenated given names.

• Feminine form: Jeanne
• Hypocoristics: Jeannot
• Variants: Yann, Yannick, Yoann, Yvan

Borrowed from French Jean.

Jean m

1. A male given name.

• The dative and accusative are obsolete nowadays, use the nominative instead.

• Jón
• Jan

From Old French Jehan, from Latin Iohannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן‎ (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

Jean m

1. A male given name, equivalent to French Jean and English John.
2. John (biblical character).

• Jeannot

Borrowed from French Jean. Doublet of João.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒeˈɐ̃/

Jean m

1. A male given name