Jeb
Jeb reached its high-water mark in 1981 at number 986, and has been recorded 2,600 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 2,400 Jebs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jeb
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,600
- Estimated living today
- 2,400
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 986th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1944
How old the living Jebs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,600 babies given the name since 1944, about 2,400 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jebs
- Jeb Bush (born 1953)Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007
- Jeb Hensarling (born 1957)former U.S. Representative from Texas
- Jeb Stuart (born 1956)American writer and film director
People named Jeb with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeb is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeb is most concentrated in Texas (4.9×), Georgia (4.9×), Florida (1.9×), California (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular boys’ names the year Jeb peaked:
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Jeb against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.