Jireh
Jireh is given to both girls and boys: 107 girls and 271 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,862 among girls’ names and #881 among boys’, #1,433 among all names counting both); 3,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,170 Americans named Jireh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jireh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jireh?
#881 among boys’ names, 2025
Jireh rose from #3,271 in 2015 to #881 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.16 per 1,000.
410 babies in 2023, the peak
Jireh peaked in 2023, when 410 babies were given it (285 boys, #850 among boys’ names). The 378 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 92% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,862 | 271 | #881 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,746 | 247 | #934 |
| 2023 | 125 | #1,661 | 285 | #850 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,891 | 217 | #1,022 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,182 | 111 | #1,570 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,708 | 44 | #2,782 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,207 | 44 | #2,827 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,500 | 34 | #3,329 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,620 | 36 | #3,215 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,437 | 31 | #3,563 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,647 | 35 | #3,271 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,510 | 35 | #3,178 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,114 | 45 | #2,641 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,811 | 31 | #3,482 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,956 | 41 | #2,873 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,343 | 42 | #2,849 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,536 | 38 | #3,076 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,222 | 28 | #3,780 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,415 | 21 | #4,563 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,645 | 23 | #4,146 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,340 | 22 | #4,119 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,446 | 25 | #3,686 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,461 | 25 | #3,566 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,432 | 19 | #4,246 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,606 | 14 | #5,257 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,383 | 21 | #3,839 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,311 | 11 | #5,824 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,237 | 16 | #4,288 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,001 | 20 | #3,516 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,507 | 12 | #5,017 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,748 | 13 | #4,641 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,954 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,077 | 11 | #5,166 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,884 | 10 | #5,409 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,707 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,569 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,501 |
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 Jireh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,202 Americans recorded as Jireh, 41% are girls and 59% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jireh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jireh, and how old are they?
3,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,202 Americans ever recorded as Jireh. The median Jireh alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,289 people named Jireh (655 women and girls, 634 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 103 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 852 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,220 |
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 Jireh born?
The states with the most babies named Jireh are Texas, California and Florida, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 65 | #635 | 1.3× |
| California | 52 | #673 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 30 | #789 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #902 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 14 | #603 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #980 | 0.3× |
| New York | 10 | #1,889 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,037 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 8 | #749 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 8 | #980 | 0.1× |
Where Jireh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jireh is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 1.3 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 Jireh 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,694 babies since 1880, Jireh is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 378 of their 383 babies (99%), again the most given.
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 Jireh
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 Jireh and names like it
- Compare Jireh and JiroBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJireh peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jireh since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jireh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jireh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.