Jary
Jary was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,700, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1969, the peak
Jary peaked in 1969, when 7 boys were given it, #3,749 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #8,700 | 2.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,310 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,023 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,749 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,164 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,313 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,317 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,820 | 2.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,963 | 2.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,991 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 | #3,756 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,379 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,341 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jary, and how old are they?
An estimated 49 Americans named Jary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Jary (106 women and girls, 308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jary rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,973 babies since 1880, Jary is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 397 babies recorded by SSA was a Jary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Jary and names like it
- Compare Jary and JairoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJary peaked in 1969.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Jary.
- Names starting with JMost given first.