Jared — #393 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jared

The Social Security Administration has registered 205,539 babies named Jared between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jared currently holds the #393 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 7,462 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jared performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 63,790 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Jared shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22,437 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jared in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jared in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 205,539 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.