Jett
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #169 for boys in 2025, 2,167 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 2,227 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 26,465since 1892
Jett over time
Rank among boys' names. Jett has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #169 | 2,167 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #161 | 2,227 |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 | #206 | 1,787 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | #211 | 1,776 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | #246 | 1,451 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #278 | 1,213 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #286 | 1,203 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #304 | 1,134 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | #301 | 1,172 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #314 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | #329 | 1,049 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #332 | 1,023 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #325 | 1,017 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #345 | 891 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #331 | 927 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #352 | 872 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #387 | 783 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #534 | 499 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #536 | 479 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #536 | 471 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #506 | 486 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #603 | 354 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #620 | 334 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #603 | 335 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #643 | 290 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #643 | 282 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #796 | 193 |
| 1998 | — | #1,068 | 123 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,182 | 101 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,278 | 86 |
| 1995 | — | #1,603 | 57 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #1,977 | 42 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,359 | 28 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,468 | 22 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,226 | 24 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,706 | 17 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,071 | 14 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
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| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,117 | 15 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,033 | 16 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,026 | 16 | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #1,634 | 24 |
| 1956 | — | #2,168 | 14 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,177 | 7 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1892 | — | #1,066 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jett! It came in at #1,066, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1892–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jett is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#480 · 1 in 4,831
- Oklahoma#507 · 1 in 4,132
- Arizona#546 · 1 in 4,978
- Colorado#579 · 1 in 5,235
- Texas#786 · 1 in 9,448
Best ever in a state: #30 in North Dakota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #480 | 6 | 1 in 4,831 |
| Oklahoma | #507 | 5 | 1 in 4,132 |
| Arizona | #546 | 7 | 1 in 4,978 |
| Colorado | #579 | 5 | 1 in 5,235 |
| Texas | #786 | 17 | 1 in 9,448 |
| Ohio | #819 | 6 | 1 in 11,664 |
| California | #940 | 17 | 1 in 14,313 |
| Florida | #987 | 7 | 1 in 12,384 |
| Illinois | #1,035 | 6 | 1 in 13,388 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jett
- 8 spots since 2024 (#161 → #169)
- 109 spots since 2020 (#278 → #169)
- 160 spots since 2015 (#329 → #169)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1999 (#1,068 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 30 spots in 2006 (#506 → #536)
- Debuted 1892
- Peaked 2024 at #161 (2,227 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 774 boys born in 2024 were named Jett (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 788 boys born in 2025 (0.13%)
- 40.1% of all boys named Jett (10,621) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,066 (1892) | #1,066 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 13 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,046 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,151 (1928) | #4,151 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,175 (1938) | #3,328 |
| 1940s | 15 | #3,459 (1940) | #3,606 |
| 1950s | 82 | #1,634 (1957) | #2,482 |
| 1960s | 64 | #2,117 (1962) | #2,693 |
| 1970s | 36 | #3,400 (1978) | #4,436 |
| 1980s | 170 | #2,226 (1985) | #3,292 |
| 1990s | 725 | #796 (1999) | #1,793 |
| 2000s | 4,313 | #387 (2009) | #561 |
| 2010s | 10,405 | #286 (2019) | #322 |
| 2020s | 10,621 | #161 (2024) | #212 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jett in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 15,540 of them was named Jett, which outranked 90.6% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).