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Jethro

#953 in 2025Boys' name

Abundance

Jethro has been given to 4,325 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #953 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 245 recorded.

Babies named Jethro, 2025

1 in 13,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jethro: meaning, origin, and history

Abundance

Hebrew

What Jethro means

Jethro means “abundance”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jethro is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Jethro comes through Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jethro is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛθɹoʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,325 boys were recorded with the name Jethro between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 245 in 2025; its best national rank was #902 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,302 in 2020 to #953 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,486 in 2015 to #953 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 Jethro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,500
245 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,970
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#953
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,380 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jethro 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,380 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jethro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jethros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jethro was born before 2010 — so the typical Jethro is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (1,113).

Is Jethro 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
+117
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+349
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+533
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (245)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#902
1899

Spellings of Jethro

Jethro is the most-used spelling, taking 65.6% of the 6,588 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Jethro is used

Across 2016–2025, Jethro was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 12,132 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

120 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 5,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 5,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 5,882
  4. 4Missouri1 in 6,667
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 7,143
  6. 6Washington1 in 7,143
  7. 7Colorado1 in 8,333
  8. 8Michigan1 in 9,091

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.

Jethro around the world

Where Jethro 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2013
    #398
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2005–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    1991–2015
    #4,735
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #808
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jethro

People whose public names include Jethro, 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.

Jethro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#953
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 349
Best rank ever
#902
1899
Peak year
2025
245 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,325
Count in 2025
245

Names similar to Jethro

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

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Names with a curve like Jethro

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

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Sibling names for Jethro

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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