Jéthro
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Jéthro is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 27K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jethro in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jéthro counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Jethro | 49 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Jethro | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Jethro | 46 |
| UG Uganda | #503 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Jethro | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | Jethro | 12 |
| US United States | — | 2,436 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Jethro | 243 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Jethro | 54 |
| ZM Zambia | #919 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Jethro | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jéthro mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Is Jéthro a male or female name?
- Jéthro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jéthro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Jéthro in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jethro.
- How common is the name Jéthro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,436 people named Jéthro in 2020, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
- How common is Jéthro compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Jéthro is the 503rd most common given name of 2,133 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A9throThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jéthro” — the 503rd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.