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Jered

#8,540 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jered has been given to 3,797 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #8,540 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 177 recorded.

Babies named Jered, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jered: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jered means

Jered is a given name.

The naming story behind Jered

Wikidata records Jered as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q110892461, 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, 3,797 boys were recorded with the name Jered between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 177 in 1982; its best national rank was #654 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,229 in 2020 to #8,540 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,116 in 2015 to #8,540 in 2025.

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 Jered?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,540
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jered 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jered. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jereds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jered was born before 1986 — so the typical Jered is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,792
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (1,505).

Is Jered 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
+1,801
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+576
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.1%
Peak was 1982 (177)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#654
1982

Spellings of Jered

Jered is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 30.0% against Jered's 0.19%.

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 Jered is used

Across 1910–2025, Jered was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 72,920 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 7,143
  2. 2Washington1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 50,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 50,000

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. Jered has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jered around the world

Where Jered 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • France
    2007–2007
    #5,058
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1993–1999
    #1,766
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jered

People whose public names include Jered, 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.

Jered by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,540
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,311
Best rank ever
#654
1982
Peak year
1982
177 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,797
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Jered

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

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Names with a curve like Jered

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

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Sibling names for Jered

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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