Jete

Girls' name

Home + king, through Henriette

Jete has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Jete, 1991

1 in 779,000

Jete over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jete: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Henriette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jete means

Jete belongs to the name family reached through Jete → Henriette → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jete is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henriette, Jette, Henri and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jete between 1991 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1991; its best national rank was #14,088 in 1991.

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.

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How common is Jete?

Jete had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991: 1 in 779,000; 5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only: 1 in 375,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 539,676 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jete sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jete. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jetes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jete was born before 1991 — so the typical Jete is around 34 today.

Median birth year: 1991; About 34 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Jete 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1991 (5)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #14,088; 1991

Spellings of Jete

Jete is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 26.0% against Jete's <0.01%.

Jean26.0%458,436
Jane21.6%379,876
June11.7%205,556
Beth9.0%159,430
Jade5.9%103,311
Kate4.9%85,987
Lee3.5%62,299
Jewel2.4%41,485

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.

Jete by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #14,088; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 5 that year
First recorded: 1991
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jete

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

Jetoi Atete Jetlyn Odete Jettye Gorete Arlete Akwete Jette Crete Lisete Jetzibe Jetty Lynnete Merete Jett Jet Collete Nicolete Jeanete Grete Juliete Pete Jetaun

Sibling names for Jete

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

For a sister

Shaniqua Devan Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy

For a brother

Shay Laron Paris Dejuan Coty Rico Malcom German

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