Jireh
#1,855 for girls in 2025, 107 births · #880 for boys in 2025, 271 births
Given to boys 59.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 285 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,898since 1987
Jireh over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,855 | 107 | #880 | 271 |
| 2024 | #1,743 | 116 | #933 | 247 |
| 2023 | #1,656 | 125 | #850 | 285 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 | #1,022 | 217 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #1,565 | 111 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #3,193 | 36 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #3,231 | 35 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
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First appearance
1987
The first year at least five boys were named Jireh! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 53 spots since 2024 (#933 → #880)
- 1,879 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #880)
- 2,351 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #880)
- Biggest jump: 172 spots in 2023 (#1,022 → #850)
- Biggest drop: 83 spots in 2024 (#850 → #933)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2023 at #850 (285 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,002
- Highest: 1 in 6,002 boys born in 2023 were named Jireh (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,303 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 61.9% of all boys named Jireh (1,175) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,951 (1987) | #6,951 |
| 1990s | 108 | #3,455 (1997) | #5,065 |
| 2000s | 236 | #3,045 (2009) | #3,971 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,623 (2013) | #3,096 |
| 2020s | 1,175 | #850 (2023) | #1,335 |
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.
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