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Jeron

#9,260 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeron has been given to 2,318 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #9,260 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Jeron, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jeron over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeron: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeron means

Jeron is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeron

Wikidata records Jeron as a given name. The entity identifier is Q87572541, 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, 2,318 boys were recorded with the name Jeron between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,202 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,118 in 2020 to #9,260 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,126 in 2015 to #9,260 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 Jeron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,260
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeron 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeron was born before 1993 — so the typical Jeron is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,306
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (616).

Is Jeron 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
−1,786
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,142
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,134
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.1%
Peak was 2001 (79)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,202
1981

Spellings of Jeron

Jeron is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 27.0% against Jeron's 0.06%.

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 Jeron is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeron was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 257,673 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Utah1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

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

Jeron around the world

Where Jeron 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2017
    #6,432
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1995–2001
    #2,057
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1983–1983
    #443
    in 1983

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 Jeron

People whose public names include Jeron, 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.

Jeron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,260
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,142
Best rank ever
#1,202
1981
Peak year
2001
79 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,318
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jeron

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

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Names with a curve like Jeron

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

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Sibling names for Jeron

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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