Jestin
Jestin was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,199 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Jestin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jestin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jestin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,342, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 2001, the peak
Jestin peaked in 2001, when 48 boys were given it, #2,163 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,342 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,198 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,882 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,771 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,390 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,512 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,193 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,232 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,614 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,362 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #6,793 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,358 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,079 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,356 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,432 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,384 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,292 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,840 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,663 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,980 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,066 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,300 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,163 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,250 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,280 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,137 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,370 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,968 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 31 | #2,465 | 16.3 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,527 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,474 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,270 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,634 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,100 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,740 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,924 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,622 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,941 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,941 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,196 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,673 | 19.5 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,084 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,678 | 19.5 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,402 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,193 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,139 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,361 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,594 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,108 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,000 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,277 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jestin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jestin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jestin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jestin, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,199 Americans ever recorded as Jestin. The median Jestin alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,057 people named Jestin (27 women and girls, 1,030 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 90 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 473 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 467 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,830 babies since 1880, Jestin is the most given (66% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jestin
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 Jestin and names like it
- Compare Jestin and JestonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJestin peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jestin since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jestin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jestin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.