Jere
Jere was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 5,437 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Jere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 55 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jere mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Jere is “a male given name from Biblical Hebrew”
Short form of Jeremias. Comparable to English Jerry.
/ˈjere/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jere?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,190, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
166 babies in 1941, the peak
Jere peaked in 1941, when 166 babies were given it (137 boys, #498 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,190 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,943 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,335 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,138 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #13,160 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,389 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,254 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,902 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 8 | #8,656 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,270 | 5 | #12,190 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #9,103 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #7,997 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 11 | #6,200 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,178 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,660 | 12 | #5,280 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,765 | 7 | #7,640 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 13 | #4,720 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,371 | 7 | #7,334 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,447 | 10 | #5,641 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 12 | #4,838 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,002 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,131 | 13 | #4,330 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,784 | 7 | #6,751 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,668 | 12 | #4,384 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,613 | 16 | #3,267 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,622 | 10 | #4,395 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,800 | 16 | #3,055 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,703 | 15 | #3,132 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,224 | 17 | #2,750 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,693 | 17 | #2,723 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,708 | 21 | #2,374 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,564 | 18 | #2,621 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,686 | 18 | #2,666 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,846 | 18 | #2,633 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,971 | 14 | #2,980 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 16 | #2,720 | |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,867 | 15 | #2,754 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,398 | 20 | #2,249 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,950 | 29 | #1,676 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 22 | #1,953 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 29 | #1,620 | |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,930 | 28 | #1,687 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,435 | 43 | #1,271 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,546 | 40 | #1,258 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,091 | 43 | #1,158 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,933 | 58 | #951 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,879 | 38 | #1,224 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,630 | 47 | #1,085 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,963 | 60 | #981 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,118 | 69 | #900 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,113 | 61 | #977 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,495 | 83 | #841 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,852 | 63 | #957 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,145 | 79 | #855 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,230 | 74 | #880 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,238 | 72 | #892 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,703 | 89 | #789 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,546 | 100 | #730 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,098 | 83 | #790 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,201 | 79 | #810 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,957 | 93 | #729 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,217 | 108 | #671 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,973 | 110 | #665 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,032 | 83 | #757 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,832 | 86 | #724 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,422 | 120 | #627 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,788 | 95 | #666 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,771 | 62 | #786 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,633 | 100 | #614 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,722 | 113 | #595 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,940 | 110 | #599 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,460 | 137 | #498 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,494 | 112 | #560 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,492 | 95 | #597 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,835 | 122 | #528 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,045 | 91 | #613 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,716 | 73 | #694 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,364 | 104 | #571 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,234 | 94 | #613 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,681 | 75 | #687 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,995 | 86 | #660 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,091 | 61 | #805 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,363 | 57 | #879 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,501 | 53 | #927 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,312 | 48 | #1,000 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,541 | 34 | #1,257 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,396 | 15 | #2,132 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 24 | #1,558 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 23 | #1,656 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,663 | 22 | #1,671 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 27 | #1,454 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 17 | #2,020 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 16 | #2,092 | |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,506 | 21 | #1,666 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 15 | #2,112 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,492 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 11 | #2,465 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,240 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 9 | #2,358 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 6 | #2,418 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,635 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 7 | #907 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 5 | #940 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,437 Americans recorded as Jere, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jere, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 53% of the 5,437 Americans ever recorded as Jere. The median Jere alive today is 68 years old; half are between 55 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 3,550 people named Jere (879 women and girls, 2,671 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 459 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 528 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 101 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jere born?
The states with the most babies named Jere are Pennsylvania, Tennessee and California, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 584 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 456 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| California | 225 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 85 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 65 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kansas | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jere is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jere is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jere with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 639,591 babies since 1880, Jere is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 262 babies recorded by SSA was a Jere (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jere
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 Jere and names like it
- Compare Jere and JerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJere peaked in 1941.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jere since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Jere.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jere alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.