# Jupiter (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jupiter/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “father jove”, “sky father”, “father zeus”, “day”, “sky”, “father”, “the bright one”, “to be bright” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈd͡ʒupɪtɚ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,749 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 650 / 1,099 (63% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 98, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

## What it means

Jupiter is grouped under father, light and sky.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | 18,125 |
| 2014 | 7 | 13,755 |
| 2015 | 43 | 3,630 |
| 2016 | 78 | 2,403 |
| 2017 | 90 | 2,137 |
| 2018 | 85 | 2,198 |
| 2019 | 109 | 1,855 |
| 2020 | 120 | 1,700 |
| 2021 | 130 | 1,616 |
| 2022 | 136 | 1,562 |
| 2023 | 120 | 1,716 |
| 2024 | 92 | 2,088 |
| 2025 | 84 | 2,205 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 10,175 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,277 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,437 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,773 |
| 2015 | 26 | 4,028 |
| 2016 | 43 | 2,813 |
| 2017 | 32 | 3,483 |
| 2018 | 47 | 2,650 |
| 2019 | 34 | 3,390 |
| 2020 | 46 | 2,706 |
| 2021 | 79 | 1,922 |
| 2022 | 66 | 2,207 |
| 2023 | 82 | 1,919 |
| 2024 | 66 | 2,199 |
| 2025 | 37 | 3,212 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3,192 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,023 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: اَلْمُشْتَرِي, يُوبِيتَر
- Armenian: Յուպիտեր, Լուսնթագ
- Catalan: Júpiter
- Chinese: 木星, 木星, 朱庇特
- Czech: Jupiter
- Danish: Jupiter
- Dutch: Jupiter
- Esperanto: Jupitero
- Estonian: Jupiter
- Finnish: Jupiter, Juppiter
- French: Jupiter
- Georgian: იუპიტერი
- German: Jupiter
- Greek: Δίας, Ζευς
- Hebrew: צֶדֶק
- Hindi: बृहस्पति, गुरु, जुपिटर
- Hungarian: Jupiter
- Icelandic: Júpíter
- Indonesian: Jupiter, Yupiter
- Irish: Iúpatar

## People named Jupiter

- Jupiter Hammon, American writer and first known published African-American author

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.