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Jera

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jera has been given to 769 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Jera, 2023

1 in 552,000

Jera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jera: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jera means

Jera is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jera is used in Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Jera is pronounced /jéːra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 769 girls were recorded with the name Jera between 1953 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,158 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jera?

Jera had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jera sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jera was born before 1989 — so the typical Jera is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
769
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Jera rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (27)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,158
1980

Spellings of Jera

Jera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 11.9% against Jera's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jera is used

Across 1910–2025, Jera was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,818,858 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jera around the world

Where Jera ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1988–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jera by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,158
1980
Peak year
1980
27 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
769
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jera

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jera

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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