Jehu
Jehu was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,609 among boys’ names; 1,059 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jehu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jehu mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jehu is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יֵהוּא (Yēhûʔ). Attested to in Akkadian as 𒁹𒅀𒌑𒀀 𒌉 𒁹𒄷𒌝𒊑𒄿 (Yaua mār Ḫumrî, literally “Jehu son of Omri”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jehu?
#3,609 among boys’ names, 2025
Jehu fell from #3,397 in 2015 to #3,609 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.2 to 18.1 per million.
35 babies in 2024, the peak
Jehu peaked in 2024, when 35 boys were given it, #3,358 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,609 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,358 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,264 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,521 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,427 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,478 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,524 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,187 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,161 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,536 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,397 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,059 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,534 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,309 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,470 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,927 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,769 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,779 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,403 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,144 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,484 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,331 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,040 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,717 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,666 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,832 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,765 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,281 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,782 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,742 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,144 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,996 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,331 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,017 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,267 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,225 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,974 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,815 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,458 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,987 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,678 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,768 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,681 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,574 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,823 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,719 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,678 | 6.4 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,443 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,542 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,059 | 2.7 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,393 | 3.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,117 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,973 | 4.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,279 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,780 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,811 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,759 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,773 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,818 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,969 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,148 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,751 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,526 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,258 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,949 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,922 | 8.8 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,709 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,697 | 6.4 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,988 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,267 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,635 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,098 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,495 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jehu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jehu has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jehu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jehu, and how old are they?
An estimated 905 Americans named Jehu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 971 people named Jehu (7 women and girls, 964 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 775 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jehu
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 Jehu and names like it
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- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jehu: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jehu.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jehu alive today were born 1997-2012.
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