Jetson
Jetson was given to 121 boys in 2025, #1,470 among boys’ names; 849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jetson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jetson?
#1,470 among boys’ names, 2025
Jetson rose from #4,022 in 2015 to #1,470 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 70.8 per million.
121 babies in 2025, the peak
Jetson peaked in 2025, when 121 boys were given it, #1,470 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 85 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,470 | 70.8 |
| 2024 | 85 | #1,887 | 49.3 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,521 | 67.8 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,700 | 57.3 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,141 | 38.3 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,780 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,711 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,334 | 31.4 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,918 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,727 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,022 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,952 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,414 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,128 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,538 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,006 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,397 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,581 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,109 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,836 | 3.1 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,102 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jetson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jetson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jetson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jetson, and how old are they?
An estimated 838 Americans named Jetson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 416 people named Jetson (11 women and girls, 405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2,391 babies since 1880, Jetson is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 453 babies (27%), 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 Jetson
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 Jetson and names like it
- Compare Jetson and JettsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJetson peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jetson since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jetson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jetson alive today were born 2013-2025.
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