Jered
#8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1982 · 177 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,797since 1949
Jered over time
Rank among boys' names. Jered has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #3,384 | 31 |
| 2005 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #3,285 | 29 |
| 2003 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #1,893 | 58 |
| 2000 | #1,487 | 82 |
| 1999 | #1,545 | 72 |
| 1998 | #1,383 | 84 |
| 1997 | #1,378 | 80 |
| 1996 | #1,314 | 83 |
| 1995 | #1,405 | 71 |
| 1994 | #1,104 | 104 |
| 1993 | #1,132 | 99 |
| 1992 | #979 | 122 |
| 1991 | #1,083 | 101 |
| 1990 | #914 | 126 |
| 1989 | #864 | 135 |
| 1988 | #844 | 127 |
| 1987 | #777 | 140 |
| 1986 | #728 | 154 |
| 1985 | #731 | 146 |
| 1984 | #660 | 171 |
| 1983 | #690 | 155 |
| 1982 | #653 | 177 |
| 1981 | #710 | 148 |
| 1980 | #705 | 152 |
| 1979 | #758 | 131 |
| 1978 | #847 | 102 |
| 1977 | #882 | 92 |
| 1976 | #838 | 99 |
| 1975 | #933 | 77 |
| 1974 | #969 | 71 |
| 1973 | #1,093 | 55 |
| 1972 | #1,249 | 44 |
| 1971 | #1,400 | 37 |
| 1970 | #1,889 | 22 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
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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 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#286 · 1 in 2,587
- Utah#321 · 1 in 2,978
- Colorado#343 · 1 in 3,355
- Washington#429 · 1 in 5,356
- California#842 · 1 in 15,357
Best ever in a state: #129 in Oregon, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #286 | 7 | 1 in 2,587 |
| Utah | #321 | 6 | 1 in 2,978 |
| Colorado | #343 | 6 | 1 in 3,355 |
| Washington | #429 | 5 | 1 in 5,356 |
| California | #842 | 11 | 1 in 15,357 |
| Texas | #874 | 8 | 1 in 14,390 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jered
- 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)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1982 at #653 (177 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1974–1990
- 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%)
- 39.6% of all boys named Jered (1,505) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 11 | #3,425 (1953) | #3,709 |
| 1960s | 58 | #1,962 (1968) | #2,664 |
| 1970s | 730 | #758 (1979) | #1,086 |
| 1980s | 1,505 | #653 (1982) | #736 |
| 1990s | 942 | #914 (1990) | #1,224 |
| 2000s | 391 | #1,487 (2000) | #3,040 |
| 2010s | 107 | #4,862 (2012) | #8,294 |
| 2020s | 48 | #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 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 16,096 of them was named Jered, which outranked 87.5% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).