Jeannie

Jeannie (also Jeanny) is a female given name and also the nickname for Jean.

Origin and meaning

Jeannie comes from the Hebrew form of the name Jechonan (יוחנן) and means “ Jehovah has given grace” or “the LORD be gracious” and is to be understood in Judaism as the expression of a birth understood as a gift.

variants

Jeanny, Jeanie, Jeanne

Well-known namesake

• Jeannie Berlin (* 1949), American actress and director
• Jeannie Marie Bocchicchio (* 1989), American pop singer
• Jeannie Cheatham (born 1937), American singer
• Jeannie Drake (* 1948), British baroness and trade unionist
• Jeanny Dom (* 1954), Luxembourg table tennis player and sports official
• Jeannie Ebner (1918–2004), Austrian writer
• Jeannie Gunn (1870–1961), Australian writer
• Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (* 1958), French cyclist
• Jeannie C. Riley (* 1945), American country singer
• Jeannie Robertson (1908–1975), Scottish folk singer
• Jeanny Steiger , pseudonym of the German writer Jürgen Duensing
• Jeannie Whayne (* 1948), American historian
• Jeannie Wilson (born 1947), American actress

See also

• Johanna
• Jeanny , title of a song by the singer Falco
• Adorable Jeannie , an American TV series