Jere — boys' name

What the Data Says About Jere

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,278 babies named Jere between 1881 and 2022, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jere currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 137 babies received it in a single year. Jere is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,159 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jere performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 1,018 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Jere shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 579 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Jere in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jere 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 4,278 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.