Names/J

Jet

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Jet is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 140 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1400.01% of boys
Peak year
2019171 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1959
3,323people given the name
Babies named Jet, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,201 boys have been named Jet in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 171 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 45%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 122 girls have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Jet
1950s5
1960s11
1970s17
1980s16
1990s101
2000s859
2010s1,451
2020s741

In 2019, its biggest year

Jet was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Jet

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.