Jeanne is the French form of Joan, and a feminine of John, carrying the ancient meaning "God is gracious." Simple and strong, it has been worn in France for centuries.
It is inseparable from Jeanne d'Arc — Joan of Arc — the young heroine and saint whose courage made the name a byword for bravery and faith.
Elegant, historic and understated, it is a classic that never quite goes out of style.
Jeanne 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jeanne reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.