Jetty
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jetty is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 20K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jetty itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
601 people
Reference-verified
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jetty 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 601 | 1 in 29K | 601 | — | — |
| US United States | 305 | 1 in 1.1M | 422 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 255 | 1 in 20K | 255 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 60as Zeti | 1 in 3.5M | 60 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6as Zetty | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1as Jeti | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
601 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jetty van Lennepb. 1894NLDutch composer (1894-1972)
- Jetty Rieckerb. 1895NLDutch television actor (1895–1980)
- Jetty Cantorb. 1903NLDutch actor and singer (1903–1992)
- Jetty Paerlb. 1921NLDutch singer
- Jetty Kreverb. 1922NLDutch creator (1922-2006)
- Emmy van Leersumb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch jewellery designer (1930-1984)
- Jetty Mathurinb. 1951NLDutch actress (born 1951)
- Jetty Eugster-van Bergeijkb. 1955NLDutch politician
- Jetty Raeb. 1987USAmerican singer
- Jetty Gasb. 2001UAmusician
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 601 | #1,808 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 405 | #3,667 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 255 | #1,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 224 | #29,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 81 | #29,154 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1940 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1938 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1944 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1931 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Jetty mean, and where does it come from?
- A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jetty?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛti/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jetty a male or female name?
- Jetty is a female 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 Jetty have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 601 people named Jetty, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jetty most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jetty is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jetty?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 601 people named Jetty, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jetty?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jettyThe 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, “Jetty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.