Jaren
Jaren was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,606 among boys’ names; 5,342 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,190 Americans named Jaren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaren?
#4,606 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaren fell from #2,060 in 2015 to #4,606 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.0 to 12.9 per million.
304 babies in 1999, the peak
Jaren peaked in 1999, when 304 babies were given it (296 boys, #614 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,606 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,924 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,934 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,932 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,385 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 39 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,742 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,860 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,950 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,060 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,865 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 89 | #1,679 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,718 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,408 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 159 | #1,159 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,325 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 168 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 206 | #956 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 169 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 178 | #976 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 201 | #870 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 196 | #873 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 221 | #780 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 281 | #657 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 257 | #687 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 296 | #614 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 169 | #857 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 131 | #988 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,073 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,080 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,049 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,168 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 205 | #690 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 93 | #1,013 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 97 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 48 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,111 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,078 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,733 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,615 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,387 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,335 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,769 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,342 Americans recorded as Jaren, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jaren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaren, and how old are they?
5,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,342 Americans ever recorded as Jaren. The median Jaren alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,827 people named Jaren (337 women and girls, 4,490 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,065 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 237 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 581 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaren born?
The states with the most babies named Jaren are California, Utah and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 423 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 377 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| Texas | 372 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 149 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 122 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 105 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 80 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Jaren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaren is most over-represented in Utah: since 1938 it was given 5.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,596 babies since 1880, Jaren is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 148 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaren
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaren and names like it
- Compare Jaren and JaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaren peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaren since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jaren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.