Jeanne

I have known 2 people with this name, both Americans, and both pronounced it like Jeannie.

My name is Jeanne and I pronounce it Jee-nee. People hardly ever pronounce it that way - it's always Jee-ANN or Jen-NEEN (but rarely JEEN, oddly enough!). It gets misspelled as Genie, Ginny, or Jenny a lot. I don't feel like it's that unusual of a name, so it surprises me that people have such trouble with it.

My grandma's name was Jeanne and she pronounced it JEEN. It technically was her middle name and is both my mother's and my own middle name. My grandmother was born in the 1920s so it's not a 'millennial' thing to pronounce it as JEEN. Furthermore, the name is pronounced ZHAN in French (which is its origin) which is not 'JEE-nee' and so in my mind when looking at the name the 'JEE-nee' pronunciation is more of an English diminutive/pet form of the name Jeanne and NOT the proper pronunciation. As a person whose first name is almost always pronounced incorrectly and spelled wrong, the JEE-nee pronunciation really irks me. I know of two famous(ish) folk who pronounce it JEE-nee: Jeanne Gang (a Chicago-based architect and founder of Studio Gang) and Jeanne Ives (a conservative politician from the Chicago suburbs, who ran for governor of Illinois in 2018). Perhaps the JEE-nee pronunciation is yet another example of the American butchering of French names and words (i.e. American pronunciation of towns named after existing French towns or folk).

My name is Jeanne. It has always been pronounced as Genie. I know there are many spellings. My name was always called correctly by people until I got older. Now everyone calls me Jean which I don’t like, or Jea-Ann. I don’t like that either. When I was growing up there were only two ways to spell it. That was Jeannie or Jeanne. I like to be called Jean-knee. Which my spelling I was told was always the correct spelling. Is it because of the millennials? It seems like only the millennials mis pronounce my name.

It's apparent to me that you don't actually read the comments because you haven't figured out that you're wrong about this one. Jeanne has always been pronounced genie in English. It changed after the tv show "I Dream of Jeannie" changed it believing that pronunciation was less confusing. Which it's obviously less confusing but it's still a bastardization of the real spelling. You can tell this by simply checking the ages of the people with the name. That spelling didn't show up in mass until after the show. You see when names naturally evolve it's for phonetic reasons. Please adjust your site so I can actually believe its accuracy.

The way they ACTUALLY pronounce it in French is either:
j-EH-n (like the name Jen, but with the soft French j).
Or John, but without the n sound (and the French j). I know because I'm French :)

In English, this is pronounced JEEN, JEE-nee, or jee-ANN.

France would be different for sure, but I've only known Americans with this name and they all pronounced it like "Jean".

I know someone with this name who pronounces it Gee-Ahn.
But that seems quite unusual to me.

Some people pronounce it like Jean (JEEN), mostly English speakers.

This is my mother's name pronounced like the word genie.