Marie-Jeanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dans l’argot des toxicomanes, marie-jeanne est employé pour marihuana ou marijuana, eux-mêmes adaptations « françaises » de haschisch, haschich ou hachisch, mots arabes désignant le chanvre indien
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Statistics Canada, 2024
/maʁiʒan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marie-Jeanne is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.8K
- MQMartinique≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dans l’argot des toxicomanes, marie-jeanne est employé pour marihuana ou marijuana, eux-mêmes adaptations « françaises » de haschisch, haschich ou hachisch, mots arabes désignant le chanvre indien. Il est évident que le prénom a été utilisé en raison de sa ressemblance avec marijuana.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Marie-Jeanne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #974 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 20K | Marie-Jeanne | 209 |
| BE Belgium | #734 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Marie-Jeanne | 44 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 2 | Marie-Jeanne | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 5 | Marie-Jeanne | 56 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 187 | 1 in 92K | 170 | Marie-Jeanne | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 6 | Marie-Jeanne | 23 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 5 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); the ht-potomitan-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandonb. 1664FRnot in their usual nameFrench author of fairy tales
- Marie-Jeanne Boucherb. 1716FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter, printmaker (1716–1796)
- Madame du Barryb. 1743FRnot in their usual nameFrench noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
- Rose Bertinb. 1747FRnot in their usual nameFrench marchande de modes (1747-1813)
- Manon Rolandb. 1754FRnot in their usual nameFrench revolutionary
- Marie-Jeanne de Lalandeb. 1768FRnot in their usual nameFrench astronomer
- May Picquerayb. 1898FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist and writer (1898-1983)
- Marie-Jeanne Tits-Dieuaideb. 1932BEnot in their usual nameBelgian historian (1932-2016)
- Mijanou Bardotb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Valérie Bonnierb. 1950FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1950–2020)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marie-Jeanne mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dans l’argot des toxicomanes, marie-jeanne est employé pour marihuana ou marijuana, eux-mêmes adaptations « françaises » de haschisch, haschich ou hachisch, mots arabes désignant le chanvre indien.
- How do you pronounce Marie-Jeanne?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁiʒan/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Marie-Jeanne a male or female name?
- Marie-Jeanne is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2012) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Marie-Jeanne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Marie-Jeanne in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marie-jeanne.
- How common is the name Marie-Jeanne?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 187 people named Marie-Jeanne, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Marie-Jeanne compared with other names?
- In France, Marie-Jeanne is the 974th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marie-jeanneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marie-Jeanne” — the 974th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.