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

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Peak · boys
2024 · 2,227 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
26,465
since 1892

Jett over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jett has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,97536#1692,167
2024#3,89238#1612,227
2023#3,70941#2061,787
2022#3,82739#2111,776
2021#3,43545#2461,451
2020#4,64828#2781,213
2019#4,65329#2861,203
2018#4,56230#3041,134
2017#4,69529#3011,172
2016#4,42332#3141,117
2015#3,53344#3291,049
2014#4,76829#3321,023
2013#4,88728#3251,017
2012#4,95728#345891
2011#9,15012#331927
2010#7,88015#352872
2009#7,34117#387783
2008#10,08411#534499
2007#9,53912#536479
2006#6,12521#536471
2005#10,12810#506486
2004#9,89210#603354
2003#10,4259#620334
2002#10,2469#603335
2001#7,31714#643290
2000#9,16310#643282
1999#11,3857#796193
1998#1,068123
1997#9,8028#1,182101
1996#9,5818#1,27886
1995#1,60357
1994#10,5697#1,97742
1993#10,5887#1,69951
1992#13,3175#2,83424
1991#2,54427
1990#2,95221
1989#2,35928
1988#2,50923
1987#2,46822
1986#2,68419
1985#2,22624
1984#2,70617
1983#3,07114
1982#3,69211
1981#6,2625
1980#4,9407
1979
1978#3,40011
1977#5,1236
1976#4,4187
1975#4,7976
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1972#4,4416
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1967#3,5596
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1964#2,8549
1963#2,41412
1962#2,11715
1961#2,9009
1960#2,31513
1959#2,03316
1958#2,02616
1957#6,0865#1,63424
1956#2,16814
1955#3,8865
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1953#3,1437
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1949#3,6905
1948#3,6685
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1940#3,4595
1939#3,4805
1938#3,1756
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1928#4,1515
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1916#3,1777
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1914#2,9156
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First appearance
1892

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.

See more about Jett
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
132 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1892
  • Peaked 2024 at #161 (2,227 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 27 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 774
  • Highest: 1 in 774 boys born in 2024 were named Jett (0.13%)
  • Latest: 1 in 788 boys born in 2025 (0.13%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 40.1% of all boys named Jett (10,621) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,066 (1892)#1,066
1900s0
1910s13#2,915 (1914)#3,046
1920s5#4,151 (1928)#4,151
1930s11#3,175 (1938)#3,328
1940s15#3,459 (1940)#3,606
1950s82#1,634 (1957)#2,482
1960s64#2,117 (1962)#2,693
1970s36#3,400 (1978)#4,436
1980s170#2,226 (1985)#3,292
1990s725#796 (1999)#1,793
2000s4,313#387 (2009)#561
2010s10,405#286 (2019)#322
2020s10,621#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 2017

girls
#4,695
29 births · 1 in 59,533 girls
boys
#301
1,172 births · 1 in 1,579 boys

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #4,695Jett29

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #301Jett1,172
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 59,533 of them was named Jett, which outranked 74.6% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jett
  1. #4,576Zophia30
  2. #4,576Zuria30
  3. #4,576Zyah30
  4. #4,695Jett29
  5. #4,695Aariah29
  6. #4,695Adalene29
  7. #4,695Adalin29
  8. #4,811Acelyn28
  9. #4,811Addysen28
  10. #4,811Adelie28

Tied with 115 names at #4,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,579 of them was named Jett, which outranked 97.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jett
  1. #298Titus1,182
  2. #299Lane1,178
  3. #300Bodhi1,173
  4. #301Jett1,172
  5. #302Ricardo1,168
  6. #302Travis1,168
  7. #304Gideon1,161
Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 497Wells#1,413#916
  2. 419Kairo#1,221#802
  3. 339Caspian#1,199#860
  4. 313Colson#1,049#736
  5. 311Kace#1,183#872
Fallers
  1. 415Riaan#861#1,276
  2. 292Chevy#980#1,272
  3. 245Kylo#904#1,149
  4. 226Braeden#993#1,219
  5. 194Kamdyn#809#1,003

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017