Jett
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Jette.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 47K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Jette.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jett, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jett 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Jett | 9 |
| US United States | — | 12,008 | 1 in 28K | 15K | Jett | 370 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #500 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jett | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 7 | Jett | 64 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Jett | 8 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Jett | 14 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jett is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, jet (hard, black form of coal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas M. Jettb. 1862USAmerican politician (1862–1939)
- Sheldon Jettb. 1901USAmerican actress (1901-1960)
- Dennis Jettb. 1945USAmerican diplomat
- Joan Jettb. 1958USAmerican rock musician
- John Jettb. 1968USAmerican football player
- James Jettb. 1970USAmerican sprinter and American football wide receiver
- Shane Jettb. 1974USAmerican politician
- Veronica Jettb. 1982USAmerican pornographic actress
- Jordair Jettb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Joe JettUSAmerican politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,985 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #3,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,930 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jett mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Jette. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jett?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jett have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Jett in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jett.
- How common is the name Jett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,008 people named Jett in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Jett compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Jett is the 500th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jett?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jettThe 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, “Jett” — the 500th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.