Jeune
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jeune is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In French, recorded as young.
- USUnited States1 in 268K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 14K
- DMDominica1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,242 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from French jeune 'young'; first attested Richard le Jeune 12th Lichfield (St).
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jeune is read(measured from records)
Jeune is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French56%
young
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Même origine que Lejeune.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
distinguishing epithet meaning ‘young’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English33%
from French jeune 'young'; first attested Richard le Jeune 12th Lichfield (St).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeune 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,242 | 1 in 268K | 1.7K | Jeune | 229 |
| BR Brazil | 156 | 1 in 1.4M | 156 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 54 | 1 in 14K | 54 | Jeune | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
1,242 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
- Francis Jeuneb. 1806JEBritish bishop, schoolmaster, college head (1806–1868)
- Margaret Dyne Symonsb. 1818GBnot in their usual namePeerage person ID=241893
- Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helierb. 1845GBBritish politician (1845-1931)
- James Le Jeuneb. 1910GBpainter (1910–1983)
- Simon Jeuneb. 1919FRFrench academic (1919-1995)
- Jacques Fabreb. 1955HTnot in their usual nameUS Catholic bishop
- Raphael Jeuneb. 1975FRFrench racing cyclist
- Karine Jeuneb. 1978FRFrench politician
- David Jeuneb. 1990USbasketball player
- Ricky Jeuneb. 1993football player (born 1993)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 723 | #30,483 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 156 | #44,888 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 54 | #571 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,848 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Jeune come from?
- from French jeune 'young'; first attested Richard le Jeune 12th Lichfield (St). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What does the name Jeune mean?
- In French, young
- In which country does Jeune have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Jeune, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeune.
- Where is Jeune most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jeune is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jeune?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,242 people named Jeune in 2010, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeuneThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jeune”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.