Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jewett is a pet form of Julian. Julian comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Jewett as a surname has a patronymic derivation linked to Julian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jewett through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 176 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 116 as a first name in 2020; 7,873 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jewett’s family of names
In English usage, Jewett as a surname has a patronymic derivation linked to Julian. In English usage, Jewett as a surname has a related form in JOWETT.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jewett
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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