Entry № 4912 · English origin

Jett Jett — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Jet-black gem (Joan Jett, rock pioneer)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "jet-black gem (joan jett, rock pioneer)".

Jett is from the English word jet — the deep-black gemstone made from fossilized wood; also linked to Joan Jett's stage surname. Jett Black — Australian rock band. The gemstone jet has been used in mourning jewelry since Victorian times — Queen Victoria's mourning jewelry following Prince Albert's death (1861) sparked the major jet-jewelry industry in Whitby, Yorkshire.

Jet-black gem (Joan Jett, rock pioneer) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Jett
Transliteration
Jett
Pronunciation
/ dʒɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jett stands.

Jett does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jetts before her.

Real people
Joan Jett
American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer.
born 1958
Jett Williams
Daughter of Hank Williams.
born 1953
In fiction
Jett
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Jett.

The number behind Jett.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jett reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.