Jethro vs Jetta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Jethro Jetta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 132 years in which either name was published, Jethro for 89 years and Jetta for 43 years. The lead changed hands 23 times.

• 1887–1905 Jetta ahead
• 1909–1926 Jethro ahead
• 1927–1939 Jetta ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1940–1958 Jethro ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1959–1961 Jetta ahead
• 1965–2000 Jethro ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 2001–2008 Jetta ahead
• 2009–2025 Jethro ahead

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jettas alive today are over 25; half the Jethros are over 9. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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