Jettie
Jettie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 461st, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918103 births
- Best rank
- #461in 1888
- Since 1880
- 3,853people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,656 girls have been named Jettie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 103 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 103 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 197 boys have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jettie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 169 | |
| 1890s | 271 | |
| 1900s | 341 | |
| 1910s | 634 | |
| 1920s | 738 | |
| 1930s | 550 | |
| 1940s | 390 | |
| 1950s | 234 | |
| 1960s | 110 | |
| 1970s | 63 | |
| 1980s | 47 | |
| 1990s | 24 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 48 | |
| 2020s | 31 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Jettie was the 713th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Jettie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Olapeak 1921
- Inapeak 1921
- Floridapeak 1925
- Nellpeak 1917
- Verniepeak 1916
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Altapeak 1918
- Aggiepeak 1920
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.