Jeb comes from the Hebrew tradition, meaning Supplanter / persecuted.
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How popular is Jeb?
1981peak year
Today, Jeb is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #4979), with only about 21 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1981, 84 babies were given the name (ranked #989 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1980s. Jeb has been declining in recent years. In all, around 2,586 babies have been registered as Jeb since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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