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Jeb

#6,255 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Jacob

Jeb has been given to 2,600 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #6,255 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Jeb, 2025

1 in 237,000

Jeb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeb: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Jacob

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeb means

Jeb is a diminutive of Jacob.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Jeb is a diminutive of Jacob. Jacob has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Jeb is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob and Jebediah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jeb is pronounced /d͡ʒɛb/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,600 boys were recorded with the name Jeb between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1981; its best national rank was #954 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,477 in 2020 to #6,255 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,112 in 2015 to #6,255 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jeb?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,255
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeb was born before 1985 — so the typical Jeb is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,584
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (527).

Is Jeb rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,751
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,778
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,143
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.7%
Peak was 1981 (84)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#954
1978

Where Jeb is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeb was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 238,310 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4Arkansas1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jeb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeb around the world

Where Jeb ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1972–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jeb

People whose public names include Jeb, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jeb by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,778
Best rank ever
#954
1978
Peak year
1981
84 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,600
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Jeb

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JebediahJebbJebadiahJebronJebidiahJebrilJebreel

Names with a curve like Jeb

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jeb, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jeb

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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