Unisex name · since 1982
Jerae
61 babies named Jerae in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 61
- total births
- 1982–2001
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 49%
- born in that decade
Jerae is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 61 have been recorded since 1982.
Jerae has 61 recorded births among girls since 1982, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1982 to 2001.
- 61 total births
- 1982–2001 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 49% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jerae's 61 recorded births place it above 55% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jerae's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jerae's full recorded timeline at 1992, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1985, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1989 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jerae popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1982–2001
- Peak year (1989)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Jerae popularity over time - boys
6 total births recorded since 1989 (Jerae as boys' name)
Jerae by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jerae's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Jerae births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
30 births
- 1990s
1990s
26 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 30 births (49% of all-time use).
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- Jerae's decade-level peak was the 1980s (30 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1982–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jerae: Baby Name Since 1982 - 61 Births, Peak 1989." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jerae. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jerae draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.