Jeanne
Barely sixty women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. A French name grown from Greek roots, meaning "god is gracious".
Jeanne Pronunciation
Jeanne is pronounced ye-AHN-ne (/jɛˈannɛ/).
What Jeanne means
Where Jeanne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jeanne comes to French from the Latin Johannes, and Johannes comes from the Greek Ioannes. That Greek form gives the name its short meaning: God is gracious. French speakers softened the older Johanna into two syllables, and Jeanne was the result.
The most famous bearer settles the name's tone. Jeanne d'Arc led French troops at Orléans in 1429 and was burned at Rouen in 1431. She was nineteen. The Church canonised her in 1920, and the peasant girl became Saint Joan.
In Poland the equivalent is Joanna, and the name-day falls in the calendar under that Polish form. A child called Jeanne on a Kraków class register reads as French straight away.
The meaning stays close to the Greek root: God is gracious.
How many people are named Jeanne
1 in 388687 women in Poland is named Jeanne. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4862 among female names.
Jeanne as a middle name
Jeanne is a first name for 58 women in Poland and a middle name for another 111, a 34/66 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 631st, between Eleni (111) and Brigitte (110).
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#629 Wera112
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#630 Eleni111
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#631 Jeanne111
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#632 Brigitte110
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#633 Florence110