Jethro
Jethro was given to 245 boys in 2025, #953 among boys’ names; 4,325 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,310 Americans named Jethro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jethro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jethro mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jethro is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.”
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró).
/ˈd͡ʒɛθɹoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jethro?
#953 among boys’ names, 2025
Jethro rose from #1,486 in 2015 to #953 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.14 per 1,000.
245 babies in 2025, the peak
Jethro peaked in 2025, when 245 boys were given it, #953 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 204 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 245 | #953 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 204 | #1,070 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 189 | #1,120 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,149 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 155 | #1,238 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,302 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,246 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 159 | #1,194 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,464 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,319 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,486 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,699 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 75 | #1,914 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,913 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,080 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,593 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,404 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,413 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,930 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,914 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,693 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,550 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,147 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,053 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,517 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,519 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,795 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,506 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,507 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,986 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,955 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,923 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 27 | #1,518 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,530 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,662 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,660 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,541 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,443 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,567 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,504 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,449 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,442 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,879 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,608 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,759 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,260 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,872 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,371 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,439 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,423 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 29 | #922 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,012 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,575 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,262 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,298 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 7 | #902 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jethro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jethro has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jethro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jethro, and how old are they?
3,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 4,325 Americans ever recorded as Jethro. The median Jethro alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,436 people named Jethro (9 women and girls, 2,427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 68 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 249 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 274 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,960 |
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 Jethro born?
The states with the most babies named Jethro are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 25 | #964 | 0.5× |
| California | 20 | #1,055 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #564 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,032 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 11 | #492 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 10 | #742 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 9 | #709 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #896 | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 9 | #412 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #970 | 1.2× |
Where Jethro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jethro is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Jethro 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 Jethro
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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