Jetty — unisex name
256 babies named Jetty in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1940. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Jetty was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Jetty in 1940 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jetty
The Social Security Administration has registered 256 babies named Jetty between 1917 and 2023, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jetty currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Jetty is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 24 additional births since 1929.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jetty performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 78 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jetty shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jetty in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 256 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jetty at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jetty popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1917
- Peak year (1940)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
256 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1940 with 13 births in a single year.
Jetty popularity over time — boys
24 total births recorded since 1929 (Jetty as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jetty accounts for 9% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jetty by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 78 births that decade — 30% of Jetty's all-time total
Jetty decade highlights
- Peak decade 78 births
- Runner-up 67 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Jetty's strongest decade
78 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.