Jeb
Jeb was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,255 among boys’ names; 2,600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Jeb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 23 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jeb mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jeb is “a diminutive of the male given name Jebediah.”
/d͡ʒɛb/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jeb?
#6,255 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeb fell from #3,112 in 2015 to #6,255 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.3 to 8.2 per million.
84 babies in 1981, the peak
Jeb peaked in 1981, when 84 boys were given it, #989 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,255 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,006 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,054 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,224 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,843 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,477 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,873 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,004 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,828 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,392 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,112 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,727 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,366 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,192 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,077 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,042 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,654 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,186 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,425 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,949 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,277 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,978 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,944 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,006 | 28.3 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,011 | 27.3 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,396 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,639 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,290 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,324 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,558 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,998 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,905 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,606 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,050 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 39 | #1,960 | 19.3 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,137 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,689 | 23.0 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,599 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,952 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,603 | 22.3 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,458 | 24.9 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,243 | 30.5 |
| 1983 | 48 | #1,351 | 26.8 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,181 | 33.6 |
| 1981 | 84 | #989 | 46.9 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,093 | 38.7 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,080 | 39.5 |
| 1978 | 83 | #954 | 50.6 |
| 1977 | 47 | #1,326 | 28.6 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,171 | 34.4 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,108 | 37.1 |
| 1974 | 65 | #1,023 | 41.3 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,028 | 39.8 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,483 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 21 | #2,007 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,763 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,886 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,986 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,079 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,999 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,789 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,521 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,674 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,234 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 29 | #1,505 | 13.7 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,502 | 13.6 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,393 | 15.0 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,617 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,730 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,210 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,705 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,648 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,233 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,434 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,095 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,170 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,479 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,994 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,659 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeb, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,600 Americans ever recorded as Jeb. The median Jeb alive today is 39 years old; half are between 23 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 2,452 people named Jeb (20 women and girls, 2,432 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,341 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 242 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 604 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 660 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 283 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jeb born?
The states with the most babies named Jeb are Texas, California and Georgia, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 160 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 58 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jeb with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jeb
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jeb and names like it
- Compare Jeb and BrantBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJeb peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeb since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jeb.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jeb alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.