Jett

What Jett means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jett yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jett?

US: Rising: up from #329 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #671 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 2,227 boys got the name (#161 that year). First in the US records in 1892.

How common

• About 1 in 788 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,199 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (6.85 per 1,000 boys), WY (5.5 per 1,000 boys), NE (4.31 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jett is #169 in the US and #452 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.4% of US babies named Jett were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jet160 US · 8 E&W
• Jed76 US · 12 E&W
• Jedd9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jett

Boys

• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*

For a sister

• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jett’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.