Yared

#3,748 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Jared

Yared has been given to 801 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,748 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.

Babies named Yared, 2025

1 in 111,000

Yared over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Yared went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19922025

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.

Yared: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jared

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yared means

Yared is a form of Jared.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yared → 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, 714 boys were recorded with the name Yared between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,844 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,134 in 2020 to #3,748 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,876 in 2015 to #3,748 in 2025.

In the United States, 87 girls were recorded with the name Yared between 1992 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2001; its best national rank was #10,075 in 2001.

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 Yared?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,748
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yared 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yared. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yareds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yared was born before 2013 — so the typical Yared is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
714
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Yared 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
−229
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−614
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,128
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2023 (45)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,844
2023

Spellings of Yared

Yared is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 50.1% against Yared's 0.10%.

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 Yared is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Yared was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 269,265 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Yared has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Yared is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Yared was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Yared around the world

Where Yared 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
    2003–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2025
    #4,637
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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.

Yared by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,748
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 614
Best rank ever
#2,844
2023
Peak year
2023
45 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
714
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,075
2001
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yared

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

Sibling names for Yared

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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