Jera
Jera was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 769 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,186, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1980, the peak
Jera peaked in 1980, when 27 girls were given it, #3,158 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,186 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,652 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,724 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,562 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,045 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,392 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,632 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,708 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,267 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,731 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,610 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,837 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,107 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,154 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,885 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,457 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,286 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,523 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,741 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,113 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,768 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,243 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,995 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,864 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,304 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,812 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,740 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,109 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,779 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,128 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,884 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,286 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,137 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,830 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,546 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,243 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,359 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,909 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,351 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,570 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,408 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,158 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,821 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,527 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,508 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,225 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,553 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,514 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,326 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,656 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,264 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,871 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,848 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,323 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,056 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,508 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,192 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,758 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,348 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,050 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jera, and how old are they?
An estimated 742 Americans named Jera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 24 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 813 people named Jera (773 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jera 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 40,846 babies since 1880, Jera is the third most given (1.9% of them).
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 Jera
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 Jera and names like it
- Compare Jera and JeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJera peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jera since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Jera.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jera alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.