Jered

#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births

Peak · boys
1982 · 177 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,797
since 1949

Jered over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #653, 1982boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,2439
2024#9,8947
2023#10,8216
2022#8,3009
2021#10,7996
2020#7,03411
2019#12,1455
2018#12,1565
2017#10,7756
2016#10,7446
2015#8,7448
2014#6,30713
2013#5,17117
2012#4,86219
2011#5,67515
2010#6,35913
2009#4,03525
2008#4,54021
2007#3,68728
2006#3,38431
2005#3,38929
2004#3,28529
2003#2,26947
2002#2,42841
2001#1,89358
2000#1,48782
1999#1,54572
1998#1,38384
1997#1,37880
1996#1,31483
1995#1,40571
1994#1,104104
1993#1,13299
1992#979122
1991#1,083101
1990#914126
1989#864135
1988#844127
1987#777140
1986#728154
1985#731146
1984#660171
1983#690155
1982#653177
1981#710148
1980#705152
1979#758131
1978#847102
1977#88292
1976#83899
1975#93377
1974#96971
1973#1,09355
1972#1,24944
1971#1,40037
1970#1,88922
1969#1,97718
1968#1,96217
1967#2,9858
1966#3,5376
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five boys were named Jered! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Jered is popular in 1949

No state had 5 or more boys named Jered in 1949, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jered
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,651 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,243)
  • 1,209 spots since 2020 (#7,034 → #8,243)
  • 501 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #8,243)
  • Biggest jump: 124 spots in 1974 (#1,093 → #969)
  • Biggest drop: 169 spots in 1991 (#914 → #1,083)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 1982 at #653 (177 births)
  • Births halved by 1995, 13 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 18 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1974–1990
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,251
  • Highest: 1 in 10,251 boys born in 1982 were named Jered (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 39.6% of all boys named Jered (1,505) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#3,690 (1949)#3,690
1950s11#3,425 (1953)#3,709
1960s58#1,962 (1968)#2,664
1970s730#758 (1979)#1,086
1980s1,505#653 (1982)#736
1990s942#914 (1990)#1,224
2000s391#1,487 (2000)#3,040
2010s107#4,862 (2012)#8,294
2020s48#7,034 (2020)#9,182

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.

Jered in 1949

boys
#3,690
5 births · 1 in 354,788 boys

Top boys' names in 1949

  1. #1James86,858
  2. #2Robert83,873
  3. #3John81,178
  4. #4William61,506
  5. #5Michael60,047
  6. #6David59,611
  7. #7Richard50,946
  8. #8Thomas45,192
  9. #9Charles40,052
  10. #10Larry31,819
  11. #3,690Jered5
More about 1949

boys

1,773,939 boys got a published name in 1949; 1 in 354,788 of them was named Jered, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,205 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jered
  1. #3,298Zan6
  2. #3,298Zed6
  3. #3,298Zollie6
  4. #3,690Jered5
  5. #3,690Abundio5
  6. #3,690Alberta5
  7. #3,690Aldine5

Tied with 515 names at #3,690; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. ↑ 538Lannie#1,107 → #569
  2. ↑ 411Lenwood#1,296 → #885
  3. ↑ 338Robby#1,296 → #958
  4. ↑ 326Ocie#1,323 → #997
  5. ↑ 319Denzil#1,127 → #808
Fallers
  1. ↓ 473Loyal#989 → #1,462
  2. ↓ 446Rich#963 → #1,409
  3. ↓ 395Brock#733 → #1,128
  4. ↓ 376Baron#972 → #1,348
  5. ↓ 333Murry#989 → #1,322

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

See the top 100 for 1949 →