Jethro

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jethro: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jethro: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #398 in 2013, and it stood at #619 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#398highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#938
1997	#1113
1998	#1000
1999	#1383
2000	#1425
2001	#1467
2002	#1411
2003	#1962
2004	#1498
2005	#1534
2006	#1347
2007	#883
2008	#1403
2009	#1358
2010	#1144
2011	#1342
2012	#1367
2013	#1920
2014	#1093
2015	#1159
2016	#1050
2017	#1470
2018	#1284
2019	#1745
2020	#1635
2021	#1688
2022	#2529
2023	#1533
2024	#1951

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #619 among boys in Scotland, #1951 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #938 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1951 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jethro appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 444 births with the name.

Jethro across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jethro's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#938 (1996)	#883 (2007)	#1951 (2024)	29 of 29	444 (1996–2024)	29 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#518 (2005)	#718 (2012)	3 of 8	9 (2005–2012)	3 (2005)

Jethro by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jethro in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	50	4 of 10	13
2000s	135	10 of 10	14
2010sbusiest	195	10 of 10	20
2020s	64	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jethro appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #398 in Northern Ireland in 2013.

Jethro's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1635	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1284	20	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1470	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1050	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1159	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1093	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1367	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1342	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1403	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#883	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1000	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#938	15	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #398, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Luciana · #397, 29y
Celeste · #401, 30y
Luisa · #401, 31y
Gus · #402, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Allanah · #398, 26y
Arjan · #398, 29y
Boston · #398, 24y
Cavan · #398, 28y

Jethro was ranked #398 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jethro and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jethro without appearing here.

Jethro moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #5119.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1533 and #4107.
Roger Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #1781 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1533 and #3523.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1962 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1534 and #2754.

Moved ahead of Jethro

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1688 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #967.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1411 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1962 and #1092.
Ronny Compare
In 2007 they stood at #883 and #1201 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1403 and #789.
Marius Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1050 and #1319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1470 and #888.

Moved the opposite way to Jethro

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Jethro

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jethro went from #938 to #1951 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #398 in Northern Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jethro

Jethro at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jethro across 2 official records

Jethro by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Jethro across 2 official records

Jethro by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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