Meaning not yet researched.
Jethro: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 245 in 2025. Its best rank was #903 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #903 in 1899; #953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jethro in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#953 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #903.
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Jethro: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 245 boys in 2025. Peak: #903 in 1899 · most boys in one year: 245 (2025).
In 2025, 245 US boys were named Jethro, making it the 953rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 117 places from #1,070 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 204 boys named Jethro in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #903, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 245, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,486 in 2015 and #1,450 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jethro in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 4,325 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,113 babies named Jethro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,676 US boys were named Jethro; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,972 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jethro ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #412 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jethroe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jethroe (11).
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 Jethro in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 9 | #412 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #492 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #564 | #731 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #589 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #709 | #728 |
| Colorado | 7 | #713 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #742 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #751 | #884 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #808 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #840 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #896 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #898 | #953 |
| Texas | 25 | #964 | #1,703 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #970 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,032 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,055 | #1,413 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,161 | #1,060 |
| New York | 6 | #1,653 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 245 | #953 |
| 2024 | — | — | 204 | #1,070 |
| 2023 | — | — | 189 | #1,120 |
| 2022 | — | — | 181 | #1,149 |
| 2021 | — | — | 155 | #1,238 |
| 2020 | — | — | 139 | #1,302 |
| 2019 | — | — | 151 | #1,246 |
| 2018 | — | — | 159 | #1,194 |
| 2017 | — | — | 116 | #1,464 |
| 2016 | — | — | 137 | #1,319 |
| 2015 | — | — | 112 | #1,486 |
| 2014 | — | — | 103 | #1,556 |
| 2013 | — | — | 87 | #1,700 |
| 2012 | — | — | 75 | #1,915 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,914 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,081 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,175 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,596 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,406 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,415 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,668 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,935 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,919 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,305 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,372 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,699 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,642 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,645 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,555 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,916 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,153 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,392 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,198 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,059 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,536 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,523 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,525 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,800 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,129 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,324 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,774 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,566 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,449 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,580 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,376 |
| 1980 | — | — | 20 | #2,483 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,507 |
| 1978 | — | — | 18 | #2,523 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,508 |
| 1976 | — | — | 19 | #2,373 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,988 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,955 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,651 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,283 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,623 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,443 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,772 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,989 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,107 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,111 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,958 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,949 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,924 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,476 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,350 |
| 1958 | — | — | 27 | #1,519 |
| 1957 | — | — | 27 | #1,531 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,663 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,661 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,542 |
| 1953 | — | — | 28 | #1,444 |
| 1952 | — | — | 24 | #1,568 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,505 |
| 1950 | — | — | 26 | #1,450 |
| 1949 | — | — | 34 | #1,239 |
| 1948 | — | — | 26 | #1,443 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,880 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,801 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,472 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,552 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,609 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,512 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,555 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,544 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,759 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,260 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,872 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,613 |
| 1935 | — | — | 21 | #1,519 |
| 1934 | — | — | 25 | #1,371 |
| 1933 | — | — | 22 | #1,478 |
| 1932 | — | — | 22 | #1,532 |
| 1931 | — | — | 24 | #1,439 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,672 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,052 |
| 1928 | — | — | 20 | #1,734 |
| 1927 | — | — | 28 | #1,423 |
| 1926 | — | — | 36 | #1,203 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,344 |
| 1924 | — | — | 33 | #1,278 |
| 1923 | — | — | 46 | #1,051 |
| 1922 | — | — | 23 | #1,614 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,282 |
| 1920 | — | — | 32 | #1,290 |
| 1919 | — | — | 36 | #1,177 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,426 |
| 1917 | — | — | 32 | #1,209 |
| 1916 | — | — | 20 | #1,621 |
| 1915 | — | — | 20 | #1,580 |
| 1914 | — | — | 26 | #1,145 |
| 1913 | — | — | 29 | #922 |
| 1912 | — | — | 18 | #1,120 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,013 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,081 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,576 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,503 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,263 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,299 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,107 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #903 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,120 |
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).