# Jean-Jacques (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jean-jacques/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | 11,176 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,189 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 2,357 |

## People named Jean-Jacques

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
- Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1943)
- Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (1800–1864)
- Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director, film producer and screenwriter (1946–2022)
- Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (1716-1795)
- Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (1829-1905)
- Jean-Jacques Marcel, French association football player (1931-2014)
- Jean-Jacques Schuhl, French writer
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (1924-2006)
- Jean-Jacques Favier, French astronaut (1949–2023)
- Jean-Jacques Eydelie, French footballer
- Jean Jacques Dortous de Mayran, French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.