Jere

Where Jere comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Jere.

  • Vowel-ended
Jere through the years
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #866 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Peak, #498
    137 babies named Jere, the most in any year.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #782.
  4. 1973
    Jere Lehtinen born
    Finnish ice hockey player
  5. 1994
    Jere Uronen born
    Finnish footballer
  6. 2005
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Jere Uronen · Finnish footballer, born 1994
  • Jere Lehtinen · Finnish ice hockey player, born 1973
  • Jere Karalahti · Finnish ice hockey player, born 1975
  • Jere Burns · American actor, born 1954
  • Jere Sallinen · Finnish ice hockey player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.