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Jerred

Boys' name

Variant of Jared

Jerred has been given to 1,569 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1988, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Jerred, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerred: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jared

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerred means

Jerred is a variant of Jared.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jerred is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.əd/ for Jerred.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jerred → Jared. The family’s meaning is “descent”, recorded in the naming reference for Jared.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jared.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,569 boys were recorded with the name Jerred between 1968 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 64 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,234 in 1985.

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 Jerred?

Jerred had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerred 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerred. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerreds were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,569
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1980s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (563).

Is Jerred 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (64)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,234
1985

Spellings of Jerred

Jerred is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 62.6% against Jerred's 0.16%.

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 Jerred is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerred was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 232,178 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in —
  4. 4Kentucky1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Jerred has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerred around the world

Where Jerred 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
    1994–1994
    #1,383
    in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jerred 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,234
1985
Peak year
1988
64 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,569
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerred

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

JeredJeremiJerellJerronJermelJersonJeriahJerielJerickJerseyJeremihJermainJerrickJeromyJermonJeronJerrinJerradJeroneJermiahJeremiaJerelJeremeJerrid

Sibling names for Jerred

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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