Jeb
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,600since 1944
Jeb over time
Rank among boys' names. Jeb has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #4,184 | 25 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #4,131 | 24 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #2,932 | 38 |
| 2005 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #1,974 | 61 |
| 2003 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | #2,608 | 33 |
| 1998 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #1,988 | 42 |
| 1994 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #1,952 | 39 |
| 1990 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #1,678 | 46 |
| 1988 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #1,588 | 41 |
| 1985 | #1,452 | 46 |
| 1984 | #1,240 | 55 |
| 1983 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #1,179 | 61 |
| 1981 | #986 | 84 |
| 1980 | #1,089 | 69 |
| 1979 | #1,077 | 68 |
| 1978 | #950 | 83 |
| 1977 | #1,312 | 47 |
| 1976 | #1,163 | 54 |
| 1975 | #1,099 | 58 |
| 1974 | #1,019 | 65 |
| 1973 | #1,023 | 62 |
| 1972 | #1,473 | 33 |
| 1971 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | #1,743 | 25 |
| 1969 | #1,861 | 20 |
| 1968 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #1,963 | 16 |
| 1965 | #1,774 | 20 |
| 1964 | #1,510 | 27 |
| 1963 | #1,659 | 23 |
| 1962 | #1,230 | 40 |
| 1961 | #1,496 | 29 |
| 1960 | #1,486 | 29 |
| 1959 | #1,387 | 32 |
| 1958 | #1,593 | 24 |
| 1957 | #1,715 | 22 |
| 1956 | #2,168 | 14 |
| 1955 | #1,682 | 21 |
| 1954 | #1,628 | 22 |
| 1953 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,376 | 11 |
| 1951 | #2,055 | 14 |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jeb! It came in at #3,430, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jeb is popular in 1944
No state had 5 or more boys named Jeb in 1944, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jeb
- 1,622 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #6,143)
- 1,717 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #6,143)
- 3,058 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #6,143)
- Biggest jump: 362 spots in 1978 (#1,312 → #950)
- Biggest drop: 193 spots in 1982 (#986 → #1,179)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1978 at #950 (83 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1978–1981
- Highest: 1 in 19,781 boys born in 1978 were named Jeb (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.3% of all boys named Jeb (527) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 16 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,493 |
| 1950s | 180 | #1,387 (1959) | #1,981 |
| 1960s | 236 | #1,230 (1962) | #1,697 |
| 1970s | 516 | #950 (1978) | #1,285 |
| 1980s | 527 | #986 (1981) | #1,409 |
| 1990s | 347 | #1,894 (1994) | #2,327 |
| 2000s | 426 | #1,936 (2003) | #2,859 |
| 2010s | 246 | #3,085 (2015) | #4,202 |
| 2020s | 106 | #4,184 (2022) | #5,538 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jeb in 1944
Top boys' names in 1944
More about 1944
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1,362,875 boys got a published name in 1944; 1 in 272,575 of them was named Jeb, which outranked 12.3% of the 3,909 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 479 names at #3,430; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.