Jett
Jett was given to 2,167 boys in 2025, #169 among boys’ names; 27,138 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,800 Americans named Jett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jett mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jett is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jett?
#169 among boys’ names, 2025
Jett rose from #329 in 2015 to #169 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.55 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,265 babies in 2024, the peak
Jett peaked in 2024, when 2,265 babies were given it (2,227 boys, #161 among boys’ names). The 2,203 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,167 | #169 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,227 | #161 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,787 | #207 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,776 | #211 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,451 | #246 | 0.83 |
| 2020 | 1,213 | #278 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,203 | #286 | 0.67 |
| 2018 | 1,134 | #304 | 0.62 |
| 2017 | 1,172 | #301 | 0.63 |
| 2016 | 1,117 | #314 | 0.59 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,049 | #329 | 0.55 |
| 2014 | 1,023 | #332 | 0.53 |
| 2013 | 1,017 | #325 | 0.54 |
| 2012 | 891 | #345 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 927 | #331 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 872 | #352 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 783 | #387 | 0.39 |
| 2008 | 499 | #534 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 479 | #537 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 471 | #536 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 486 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 354 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 334 | #621 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 335 | #603 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 290 | #645 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 282 | #644 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 193 | #794 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,065 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 101 | #1,180 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,281 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 57 | #1,607 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 42 | #1,992 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,703 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,146 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,654 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,211 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,259 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,957 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,922 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 27,138 Americans recorded as Jett, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 girls and 2,167 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jett, and how old are they?
26,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 27,138 Americans ever recorded as Jett. The median Jett alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 15,488 people named Jett (501 women and girls, 14,987 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,388 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 112 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 477 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18,700 |
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 Jett born?
The states with the most babies named Jett are Texas, California and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 221 | #168 | 1.2× |
| California | 187 | #197 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 126 | #183 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 89 | #107 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | #157 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 80 | #55 | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 70 | #186 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 68 | #186 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 65 | #137 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 63 | #194 | 0.8× |
Where Jett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jett is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Jett 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, Jett is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,203 of their 2,458 babies (90%), again the 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 Jett
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 Jett and names like it
- Compare Jett and JetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJett peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jett since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jett.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jett alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.