Jeter
Jeter was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,272 among boys’ names; 1,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeter?
#3,272 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeter fell from #2,042 in 2015 to #3,272 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 21.1 per million.
70 babies in 2015, the peak
Jeter peaked in 2015, when 70 boys were given it, #2,042 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,272 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,932 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 32 | #3,590 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,733 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,042 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,816 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,744 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,819 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,545 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,474 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,042 | 36.5 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,122 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,449 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,926 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,078 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,565 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,013 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,872 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,179 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,406 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,717 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,062 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,387 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,879 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,252 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,154 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,251 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,374 | 2.6 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,121 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,625 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,956 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,485 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,311 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,699 | 4.3 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,109 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,906 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,034 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,046 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,885 | 8.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,530 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,947 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,668 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,668 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,539 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,696 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,892 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,626 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,254 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,478 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,635 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,823 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,101 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,501 | 7.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,421 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeter has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeter, and how old are they?
An estimated 897 Americans named Jeter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 726 people named Jeter (24 women and girls, 702 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 680 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Jeter born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #1,882 | 1.9× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,014 | 0.2× |
Where Jeter is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeter is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 1.9 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 Jeter 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 Jeter
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.
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