Girl
Jane
Jane means "God is gracious" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1950s peak. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
HebrewGod is gracious
FrenchFeminine form of Jean, God's grace
Births by decade
1900s
4,509
1910s
27,814
1920s
48,230
1930s
46,022
1940s
72,758
1950s
83,087
1960s
43,450
1970s
9,531
1980s
7,495
1990s
6,706
2000s
7,127
2010s
7,942
Peaked in the 1950s · 364,671 total U.S. births since 1900