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Jehu

#3,609 in 2025Boys' name

Jehu son of Omri

Jehu has been given to 1,059 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,609 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Jehu, 2025

1 in 107,000

Jehu 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jehu: meaning, origin, and history

Jehu son of Omri

Hebrew

What Jehu means

Jehu means “Jehu son of Omri”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יֵהוּא (Yēhûʔ). Attested to in Akkadian as 𒁹𒅀𒌑𒀀 𒌉 𒁹𒄷𒌝𒊑𒄿 (Yaua mār Ḫumrî, literally “Jehu son of Omri”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jehu (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Jehu is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,059 boys were recorded with the name Jehu between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,635 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,478 in 2020 to #3,609 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,397 in 2015 to #3,609 in 2025.

How common is Jehu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,609
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jehu 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jehu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jehus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jehu was born before 2005 — so the typical Jehu is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
920
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Jehu 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
−251
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+869
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−212
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.6%
Peak was 2024 (35)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,635
1916

Spellings of Jehu

Jehu is not the most common spelling — John is, with 90.6% against Jehu's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jehu is used

Across 1910–2025, Jehu was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 183,809 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 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. Jehu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jehu around the world

Where Jehu 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2009
    #3,227
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jehu by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,609
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 869
Best rank ever
#2,635
1916
Peak year
2024
35 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,059
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Jehu

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

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Sibling names for Jehu

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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