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Jerad

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerad has been given to 3,784 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1983, with 243 recorded.

Babies named Jerad, 2017

1 in 715,000

Jerad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerad: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerad means

Jerad is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerad

Wikidata records Jerad as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q101541859, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,784 boys were recorded with the name Jerad between 1967 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 243 in 1983; its best national rank was #540 in 1983.

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.

How common is Jerad?

Jerad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerad was born before 1985 — so the typical Jerad is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,784
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (1,912).

Is Jerad 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (243)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#540
1983

Spellings of Jerad

Jerad is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 39.2% against Jerad's 0.24%.

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 Jerad is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerad was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 66,488 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 20,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 20,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 25,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Missouri1 in 33,333
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Jerad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerad around the world

Where Jerad 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #1,433
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1971–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jerad

People whose public names include Jerad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jerad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#540
1983
Peak year
1983
243 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
3,784
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerad

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

JerradJeredJerelJerodJeronJeromyJeriahJerronJerellJeremiJeremieJermiahJerrodJermelJaradJersonJerichoJerielJeranKonradJerrickJereJermainJerrell

Names with a curve like Jerad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jerad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JessicaCortneyAmandaJustonJermeyJustineNicholausAmitJamaalTyrelStephanieKiel

Sibling names for Jerad

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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