Meaning and history
Sometimes a diminutive of Jacob, this name may also have originated as a nickname for James Ewell Brown Stuart (1833–1864), the Confederate general in the American Civil War, formed from the initial letters of his three given names.
20062006: 38 births, rank #2,932
2007: 22 births, rank #4,375
2008: 24 births, rank #4,145
2009: 21 births, rank #4,582
2010: 25 births, rank #3,994
20112011: 18 births, rank #4,983
2012: 24 births, rank #4,131
2013: 32 births, rank #3,339
2014: 28 births, rank #3,693
2015: 37 births, rank #3,085
20162016: 23 births, rank #4,327
2017: 20 births, rank #4,746
2018: 19 births, rank #4,918
2019: 20 births, rank #4,806
2020: 22 births, rank #4,426
20212021: 20 births, rank #4,780
2022: 25 births, rank #4,184
2023: 15 births, rank #5,927
2024: 10 births, rank #7,765
20252025: 14 births, rank #6,143
Jeb moved from #954 to #989 for boys between 1978 and 1981. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 84.