Jette
Jette was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,355 among girls’ names; 162 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jette mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Jette is “a female given name”
Originally a diminutive of Henriette.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jette?
#11,355 among girls’ names, 2025
Jette rose from #12,336 in 2015 to #11,355 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
15 babies in 2012, the peak
Jette peaked in 2012, when 15 girls were given it, #7,996 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,355 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,394 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,914 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,756 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,315 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,182 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,829 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,732 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,164 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,336 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #17,784 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,996 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,672 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,237 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,024 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,574 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,643 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,035 | 3.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,019 | 4.6 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,260 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 162 Americans recorded as Jette, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jette, and how old are they?
An estimated 154 Americans named Jette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 443 people named Jette (390 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times 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 6,563 babies since 1880, Jette is the fourth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 36 babies (22%), the third most given that year.
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 Jette
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 Jette and names like it
- Compare Jette and JettieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJette peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jette since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jette.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jette alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.