Jeter — #2914 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jeter

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,021 babies named Jeter between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jeter currently holds the #2914 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 70 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeter performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 433 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jeter shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeter in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jeter in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,021 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.