girls:
256 births since 1917
#5460 (4th percentile)
boys:
19 births since 1929
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
275 births since 1917
#7464 (4th percentile)
The name Jetty is the #7,464 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 275 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,460 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1929.
Jetty first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 1929 for boys). Birth data for Jetty is available in 35 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (33 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jetty has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jetty reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #580) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jetty ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 41.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jetty reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #914) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jetty".
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