Jet
Jet was given to 160 boys in 2025, #1,246 among boys’ names; 3,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,440 Americans named Jet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jet mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jet is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jet?
#1,246 among boys’ names, 2025
Jet fell from #1,235 in 2015 to #1,246 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 77.2 to 93.7 per million.
177 babies in 2019, the peak
Jet peaked in 2019, when 177 babies were given it (171 boys, #1,139 among boys’ names). The 160 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,246 | 93.7 |
| 2024 | 142 | #1,347 | 82.4 |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,318 | 84.8 |
| 2022 | 162 | #1,219 | 92.8 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,228 | 89.7 |
| 2020 | 137 | #1,314 | 79.4 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,139 | 95.3 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,257 | 80.9 |
| 2017 | 132 | #1,354 | 71.3 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,249 | 78.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 148 | #1,235 | 77.2 |
| 2014 | 140 | #1,275 | 72.9 |
| 2013 | 141 | #1,251 | 74.5 |
| 2012 | 150 | #1,198 | 79.1 |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,233 | 74.8 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,301 | 68.8 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,410 | 60.5 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,395 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,601 | 47.2 |
| 2006 | 99 | #1,522 | 48.2 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,297 | 59.1 |
| 2004 | 72 | #1,752 | 36.3 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,040 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,007 | 28.3 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,784 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,880 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,057 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,820 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,954 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,724 | 6.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,489 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,007 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,485 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,477 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,812 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,683 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,303 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,094 | 3.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,828 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,269 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,485 Americans recorded as Jet, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 160 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jet, and how old are they?
3,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,485 Americans ever recorded as Jet. The median Jet alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,023 people named Jet (249 women and girls, 2,774 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,553 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jet rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 42 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,990 |
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 Jet born?
The states with the most babies named Jet are California, Texas and Florida, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #894 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,117 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,229 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #969 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | #811 | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #656 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,062 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #867 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,160 | 0.1× |
| Idaho | 5 | #459 | 0.2× |
Where Jet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jet is most over-represented in Utah: since 1954 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Jet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 32,558 babies since 1880, Jet is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 160 of their 2,458 babies (6.5%), again the second most given.
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 Jet
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 Jet and names like it
- Compare Jet and JettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJet peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jet since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Jet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.