Jera — girls' name
769 babies named Jera in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Jera was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Jera in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jera
The Social Security Administration has registered 769 babies named Jera between 1953 and 2023, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jera performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Jera in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jera 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 769 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.
Jera at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1953
- Peak year (1980)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
769 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 27 births in a single year.
Jera by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 195 births that decade — 25% of Jera's all-time total
Jera decade highlights
- Peak decade 195 births
- Runner-up 158 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jera's strongest decade
195 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Jera by state
Where Jera concentrates geographically — total births since 1953
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #2 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.7% |
5 of 769 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 0.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1953–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.