Meaning not yet researched.
Jeb: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #954 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #954 in 1978; #6,259 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeb in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,259 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #954.
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Jeb: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #954 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 84 (1981).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Jeb, making it the 6,259th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,752 places from #8,011 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 10 boys named Jeb in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #954, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 84, in 1981. For comparison, it was #3,113 in 2015 and #3,171 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeb in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 2,600 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 527 babies named Jeb.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 188 US boys were named Jeb; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jebb are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jebb (39).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jeb in the open dataset we use.
Jeb is listed as a nickname for Jebadiah.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,259 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,011 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,059 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,228 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,847 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,481 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,877 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,008 |
| 2017 | — | — | 20 | #4,832 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,393 |
| 2015 | — | — | 37 | #3,113 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,730 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,368 |
| 2012 | — | — | 24 | #4,195 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,080 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,043 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,656 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,189 |
| 2007 | — | — | 22 | #4,427 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,950 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,281 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,982 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,948 |
| 2002 | — | — | 55 | #2,010 |
| 2001 | — | — | 53 | #2,015 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,400 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,643 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,293 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,327 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,563 |
| 1995 | — | — | 42 | #2,003 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,910 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,612 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,056 |
| 1991 | — | — | 39 | #1,966 |
| 1990 | — | — | 34 | #2,142 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,694 |
| 1988 | — | — | 45 | #1,604 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,956 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,604 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,459 |
| 1984 | — | — | 55 | #1,244 |
| 1983 | — | — | 48 | #1,352 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,182 |
| 1981 | — | — | 84 | #989 |
| 1980 | — | — | 69 | #1,093 |
| 1979 | — | — | 68 | #1,080 |
| 1978 | — | — | 83 | #954 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,326 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,171 |
| 1975 | — | — | 58 | #1,108 |
| 1974 | — | — | 65 | #1,023 |
| 1973 | — | — | 62 | #1,028 |
| 1972 | — | — | 33 | #1,483 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,008 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,764 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,887 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #1,987 |
| 1967 | — | — | 15 | #2,080 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #2,000 |
| 1965 | — | — | 20 | #1,790 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,522 |
| 1963 | — | — | 23 | #1,675 |
| 1962 | — | — | 40 | #1,235 |
| 1961 | — | — | 29 | #1,506 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,503 |
| 1959 | — | — | 32 | #1,394 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,618 |
| 1957 | — | — | 22 | #1,731 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,211 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,706 |
| 1954 | — | — | 22 | #1,649 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,234 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,435 |
| 1951 | — | — | 14 | #2,096 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,171 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,481 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,996 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,661 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).