Jethro is a male first name.
Jethro is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1265 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,264 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jethro.
You may not know anyone named Jethro, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to men and boys named Jethro. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Jethro living in one state or another. If your name is Jethro and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In North Carolina, which has the most people named Jethro relative to the population, you still have to ask 29,397 men and boys their names before you hear Jethro as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With six letters, the name Jethro is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jethro and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jethro, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Rocket
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jethro
Jethro
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
T
H
R
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
T
H
R
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jethro sounds like this:
