Jered
Jered was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,540 among boys’ names; 3,797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,580 Americans named Jered and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jered by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jered?
#8,540 among boys’ names, 2025
Jered rose from #9,116 in 2015 to #8,540 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.3 per million.
177 babies in 1982, the peak
Jered peaked in 1982, when 177 boys were given it, #654 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,540 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,341 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,452 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,609 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,361 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,229 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,008 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,042 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,387 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,336 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,116 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,453 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,274 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,932 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,799 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,519 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,094 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,611 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,735 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,412 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,413 | 14.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,318 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,291 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,446 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,897 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 82 | #1,488 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 72 | #1,546 | 37.5 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,385 | 43.9 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,377 | 42.4 |
| 1996 | 83 | #1,317 | 43.8 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,405 | 37.3 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,104 | 53.8 |
| 1993 | 99 | #1,130 | 50.5 |
| 1992 | 122 | #978 | 61.1 |
| 1991 | 101 | #1,079 | 50.0 |
| 1990 | 126 | #912 | 61.3 |
| 1989 | 135 | #864 | 67.5 |
| 1988 | 127 | #844 | 66.3 |
| 1987 | 140 | #780 | 75.0 |
| 1986 | 154 | #728 | 83.6 |
| 1985 | 146 | #731 | 79.0 |
| 1984 | 171 | #660 | 94.7 |
| 1983 | 155 | #691 | 86.5 |
| 1982 | 177 | #654 | 97.6 |
| 1981 | 148 | #710 | 82.6 |
| 1980 | 152 | #705 | 85.2 |
| 1979 | 131 | #759 | 76.1 |
| 1978 | 102 | #851 | 62.1 |
| 1977 | 92 | #889 | 56.0 |
| 1976 | 99 | #841 | 63.1 |
| 1975 | 77 | #934 | 49.3 |
| 1974 | 71 | #972 | 45.2 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,098 | 35.3 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,257 | 27.1 |
| 1971 | 37 | #1,408 | 20.9 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,907 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,010 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,987 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,103 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,709 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,946 | 4.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,255 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,607 | 3.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,954 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jered a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jered has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jered: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jered, and how old are they?
3,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,797 Americans ever recorded as Jered. The median Jered alive today is 39 years old; half are between 31 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 3,320 people named Jered (7 women and girls, 3,313 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 844 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,950 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 107 |
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 Jered born?
The states with the most babies named Jered are California, Texas and Oregon, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oregon is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 429 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 233 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oregon | 223 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Ohio | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 94 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 88 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 53 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Jered is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jered is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1949 it was given 4.9 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 Jered 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,411 babies since 1880, Jered is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 27 babies (33%), the second most given that year.
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 Jered
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 Jered and names like it
- Compare Jered and JerrodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJered peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jered since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jered.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jered alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.