Jette

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• French Jetté : surname bestowed on a foundling, from jeté ‘thrown out’. It is Americanized sometimes as Trow and also as Stay.
• German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name with a first element related to Middle High German gate ‘companion’.
• A Jetté from the Anjou region of France is documented in Montreal in 1659 with the secondary surname Durivage.