Jaren

Last seen for girls in 2009 at #13,704 · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
1999 · 296 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,089
since 1938

Jaren over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jaren has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201938peak #614, 1999boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#4,53922
2024—#3,89628
2023—#3,88328
2022—#3,87928
2021—#3,36234
2020—#2,98039
2019—#2,73646
2018—#2,84842
2017—#2,84042
2016—#2,93540
2015—#2,05569
2014—#1,85779
2013—#1,67589
2012—#1,71188
2011—#1,404118
2010—#1,159159
2009#13,7047#1,324131
2008—#1,099168
2007—#955206
2006—#1,058169
2005#11,8348#976178
2004#10,6909#871201
2003—#873196
2002#13,5956#781221
2001#10,1029#657281
2000#10,7458#688257
1999#10,3458#614296
1998#8,58410#858169
1997#9,8028#988131
1996—#1,071113
1995#10,5147#1,081109
1994#9,5868#1,089106
1993#11,7806#1,047111
1992#11,7386#1,16290
1991#7,98710#1,22782
1990#7,88010#1,25977
1989#12,3625#692205
1988#10,3866#1,01393
1987#7,3539#95497
1986#8,5237#1,45747
1985#6,45710#1,41648
1984#4,96614#1,84230
1983#5,14813#1,47042
1982#6,37110#2,34121
1981#6,32310#2,08625
1980#6,31910#1,91029
1979#6,18910#1,78831
1978#6,3859#2,27920
1977—#2,45818
1976#9,2845#2,11322
1975#9,0675#2,54016
1974—#2,05021
1973—#4,5056
1972—#2,65913
1971—#2,55814
1970—#3,8367
1969—#3,5957
1968—#4,1365
1967—#3,2317
1966—#3,5376
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First appearance
1938

The first year at least five boys were named Jaren! It came in at #3,534, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1938–1946, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Jaren is popular in 1938

No state had 5 or more boys named Jaren in 1938, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jaren
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 643 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #4,539)
  • 1,559 spots since 2020 (#2,980 → #4,539)
  • 2,484 spots since 2015 (#2,055 → #4,539)
  • Biggest jump: 503 spots in 1987 (#1,457 → #954)
  • Biggest drop: 567 spots in 1990 (#692 → #1,259)
Rise & fade · boys
61 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1938
  • Peaked 1999 at #614 (296 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1997–2005
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,487
  • Highest: 1 in 6,487 boys born in 1999 were named Jaren (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 39.5% of all boys named Jaren (2,008) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#3,534 (1938)#3,534
1940s6#3,370 (1947)#3,370
1950s0——
1960s30#3,231 (1967)#3,713
1970s168#1,788 (1979)#2,679
1980s637#692 (1989)#1,518
1990s1,284#614 (1999)#1,040
2000s2,008#657 (2001)#928
2010s772#1,159 (2010)#2,122
2020s179#2,980 (2020)#3,757

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Jaren in 1938

boys
#3,534
5 births · 1 in 221,829 boys

Top boys' names in 1938

  1. #1Robert62,271
  2. #2James59,102
  3. #3John50,517
  4. #4William42,433
  5. #5Richard34,385
  6. #6Charles31,151
  7. #7Donald26,677
  8. #8David22,994
  9. #9Thomas21,381
  10. #10Ronald20,295
  11. #3,534Jaren5
More about 1938

boys

1,109,147 boys got a published name in 1938; 1 in 221,829 of them was named Jaren, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,035 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jaren
  1. #3,175Willmer6
  2. #3,175Wyndell6
  3. #3,175Zoltan6
  4. #3,534Jaren5
  5. #3,534Able5
  6. #3,534Abundio5
  7. #3,534Adams5

Tied with 501 names at #3,534; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,314Dion#2,197 → #883
  2. ↑ 448Tex#1,212 → #764
  3. ↑ 425Lonny#1,233 → #808
  4. ↑ 401Gonzalo#1,180 → #779
  5. ↑ 383Lance#722 → #339
Fallers
  1. ↓ 741Worth#1,000 → #1,741
  2. ↓ 528Estel#869 → #1,397
  3. ↓ 492Milburn#845 → #1,337
  4. ↓ 412Lonzo#835 → #1,247
  5. ↓ 405Joy#932 → #1,337

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1938 →