Jireh
#881 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jireh has been given to 3,202 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #881 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 285 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% boys, 41% girls all-time.
Babies named Jireh, 2025
1 in 12,200
Jireh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jireh over time
In 2025, Jireh went to 28% girls and 72% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jireh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 12,200
- 271 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 6,300
- 0.02% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #881
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 8,480 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jireh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 8,480 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jireh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jirehs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jireh was born before 2022 — so the typical Jireh is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 61.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,898
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (1,175).
Is Jireh 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
- +53
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,901
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,390
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 7.74×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.1%
- Peak was 2023 (285)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jireh
Jireh is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 86.7% against Jireh's 0.80%.
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 Jireh is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Jireh was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 14,941 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
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.
Where Jireh is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Jireh was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 25,309 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 12,500
- 2Florida1 in 16,667
- 3Maryland1 in 20,000
- 4California1 in 25,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 8Virginia1 in 33,333
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.
Jireh around the world
Where Jireh 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 & Wales2008–2025#1,307in 2025
- France2023–2023#3,002in 2023
- Canada2009–2024#886in 2024
- South Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
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.
Jireh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jireh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jireh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.