🔥Jethro

Hebrew
"excellence"

Jethro Origin and Meaning

The name Jethro is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "excellence".

Jethro, though the biblical father-in-law of Moses, has suffered for a long time from a Beverly Hillbilly image, but some really adventurous parents might consider updating and urbanizing it and transitioning it into the hip o-ending category.

The 60s rock group Jethro Tull was named for an eighteenth century British agricultural reformer and inventor.

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Famous People Named Jethro

  • Jethro
    Biblical father of Zipporah; father,in,law of Moses
  • Jethro Exum Sumner
    American Revolutionary War general
  • Jethro Ayers Hatch
    U.S. Congressman from Indiana
  • Jethro Tull
    English agriculturalist and inventor of the seed drill
  • Jethro Pugh
    American NFL football player

The name Jethro in Pop Culture

  • Jethro Bodine
    character on TV's "Beverly Hillbillies"
  • Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs
    character on TV's "NCIS"
  • Jethro Cane
    character on TV's "Doctor Who"
  • Jethro
    character in G. A. Henty's "The Cat of Bubastes"
  • Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden
    character on TV's "JAG"
  • Jethro Creighton
    character in "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
  • Jethro West
    character on New Zealand TV's "Outrageous Fortune"
  • Jethro
    character in video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"
  • Jethro Tull
    British rock band

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