Meaning not yet researched.
Jett: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,167 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 2024; #169 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Jett in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#169 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #161.
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Jett: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,167 boys in 2025. Peak: #161 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 2,227 (2024).
In 2025, 2,167 US boys were named Jett, making it the 169th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #161 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 2,227 boys named Jett in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #161, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,227. For comparison, it was #329 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jett in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 27,138 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,848 babies named Jett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,247 US boys were named Jett; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,227. In 2025 that was about 1 in 788 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jett ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #31 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 7 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jet (3,485 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeet, Jette and Jeth 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jeet (224), Jette (162), Jeth (8), Jete (5).
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 Jett 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 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 23 | #31 | #190 |
| Utah | 80 | #55 | #133 |
| Nebraska | 38 | #58 | #158 |
| Idaho | 29 | #77 | #199 |
| Wyoming | 6 | #78 | — |
| Kansas | 40 | #88 | #273 |
| Louisiana | 50 | #98 | #304 |
| South Dakota | 13 | #101 | #127 |
| Iowa | 37 | #104 | #183 |
| Montana | 12 | #105 | #125 |
| Michigan | 89 | #107 | #545 |
| Oklahoma | 42 | #113 | #118 |
| Alabama | 45 | #119 | #465 |
| Missouri | 57 | #125 | #230 |
| Oregon | 32 | #129 | #265 |
| Wisconsin | 47 | #131 | #364 |
| Minnesota | 49 | #133 | #263 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #134 | — |
| Arizona | 65 | #137 | #244 |
| Nevada | 22 | #143 | #286 |
| Kentucky | 38 | #144 | #312 |
| Mississippi | 22 | #145 | #260 |
| Maine | 9 | #145 | — |
| Delaware | 7 | #155 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | #157 | #539 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #161 | — |
| Texas | 221 | #168 | #279 |
| Indiana | 50 | #170 | #288 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #171 | — |
| Florida | 121 | #183 | #365 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #183 | #503 |
| Washington | 47 | #185 | #338 |
| Ohio | 70 | #186 | #368 |
| Arkansas | 20 | #186 | #201 |
| North Carolina | 68 | #186 | #539 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #192 | — |
| Georgia | 63 | #194 | #336 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #194 | — |
| Maryland | 30 | #197 | #510 |
| California | 187 | #197 | #383 |
| Tennessee | 47 | #197 | #337 |
| Colorado | 34 | #200 | #196 |
| Virginia | 40 | #223 | #481 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #238 | #310 |
| New Jersey | 33 | #276 | — |
| Illinois | 36 | #301 | #398 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #327 | #665 |
| New York | 49 | #364 | #583 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,027 | 2,167 | #169 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,921 | 2,227 | #161 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,736 | 1,787 | #207 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,854 | 1,776 | #211 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,461 | 1,451 | #246 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,689 | 1,213 | #278 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,708 | 1,203 | #286 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,614 | 1,134 | #304 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,746 | 1,172 | #301 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,469 | 1,117 | #314 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,557 | 1,049 | #329 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,835 | 1,023 | #332 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,949 | 1,017 | #325 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,028 | 891 | #345 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,408 | 927 | #331 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,070 | 872 | #352 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,497 | 783 | #387 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,401 | 499 | #534 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,819 | 479 | #537 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,230 | 471 | #536 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,476 | 486 | #506 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,257 | 354 | #603 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,811 | 334 | #621 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,605 | 335 | #603 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,495 | 290 | #645 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,482 | 282 | #644 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,919 | 193 | #796 |
| 1998 | — | — | 123 | #1,068 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,217 | 101 | #1,183 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,966 | 86 | #1,283 |
| 1995 | — | — | 57 | #1,612 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,054 | 42 | #1,997 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,077 | 51 | #1,708 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,208 | 24 | #2,878 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,574 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,007 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,384 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,555 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,512 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,728 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,256 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,753 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,147 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,805 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,745 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,202 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,497 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,455 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,649 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,097 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,703 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,753 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,959 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,473 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,146 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,996 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,372 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,068 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,501 | 24 | #1,655 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,212 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,123 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,260 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,959 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,924 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,701 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,725 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,347 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,443 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,343 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,084 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,163 |
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).