Jupiter
Feminine · “sky father”
Jupiter is given to both — 1,099 girls and 650 boys since 1880. See Jupiter as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Jupiter is sky-father — Dyeu pater — and the same first element gives Zeus, deus, deity and Tuesday.
How old is the name Jupiter?
Jupiter first appears in US birth records in 2012 — 13 years ago. The typical Jupiter is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Jupiter are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jupiter most popular?
Jupiter peaked in 2022, reaching #1560 nationally. Today it ranks #2194, 634 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Dyeu pater to Jupiter
The story of Jupiter
Dyeu pater is one of the few phrases reconstructable across the whole Indo-European family — Latin Iuppiter, Greek Zeu pater, Sanskrit Dyaus Pitar all preserve it, which is strong evidence for a shared sky-father figure. The planet is the largest in the solar system. Jupiter appears in American records for both sexes in current use.
Meaning
sky father
From the Latin Iuppiter, from the Indo-European Dyeu pater, 'sky father' — dyeu, 'sky' or 'shining', plus 'father'. The same dyeu gives Zeus, deus, deva and the Germanic Tiw behind Tuesday. The etymology is among the best established in comparative linguistics.
How the name formed
- Dyeu pater
- Iuppiter
- Jupiter
Related forms: Iuppiter · Ζεῦ πάτερ · Dyaus Pitar
Pronouncing Jupiter
JOO-pih-tur
Three syllables, stress on the first. Latin Iuppiter is YOO-pi-ter.
Nicknames for Jupiter
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2012
- Most girls named
- 2022136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1560reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −8.7%84 in 2025, from 92
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jupiter in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Iuppiter in Latin — related form
- Ζεῦ πάτερ in Greek — related form
- Dyaus Pitar in Sanskrit — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jupiters among us
people named Jupiter are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was named Jupiter
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Hanah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jupiter's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Hanah climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Hanah's path sketches the road Jupiter is walking now.
Jupiter sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jupiter is headed
Jupiter should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jupiter beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jupiter in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the phrase survives across Latin, Greek and Sanskrit is a first-rate fact.
- The largest planet in the solar system carries it.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It names a father god, which sits oddly on a girls' name.
- It is a planet name and reads as one.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Feminine · #2194 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jupiters are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Jupiter are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jupiter in 2025?
- Jupiter ranks #2194 among US girl names in 2025, with 84 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jupiter?
- About 1 in every 19,134 US girls born in 2025 was named Jupiter — 84 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jupiter with classmates?
- Jupiter will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jupiter
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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