Meaning not yet researched.
Jared: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 804 in 2025. Its best rank was #51 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #51 in 1998; #396 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jared in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#396 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #51.
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Jared: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 804 boys in 2025. Peak: #51 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 7,462 (1998).
In 2025, 804 US boys were named Jared, making it the 396th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3 places from #393 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 830 boys named Jared in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #51, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 7,462. For comparison, it was #340 in 2015 and #857 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jared in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 207,119 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 63,965 babies named Jared.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,594 US boys were named Jared; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 971. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,124 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jared ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #179 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jarred (13,263 babies since 1880), Jarrod (25,351 babies since 1880), Jarod (11,804 babies since 1880) and Jarad (2,178 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaryd, Jarryd and Jahred are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaryd (760), Jarryd (692), Jahred (136), Jaired (55), Jaraad (29), Jahrod (17), Jarodd (10), Jaredd (7), Jarade (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jared in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 5 | #179 | #235 |
| New Jersey | 42 | #226 | #373 |
| Utah | 18 | #277 | #296 |
| Maryland | 19 | #292 | #320 |
| California | 121 | #304 | #277 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #315 | #296 |
| New York | 58 | #316 | #268 |
| Indiana | 21 | #356 | #305 |
| Arizona | 21 | #366 | #327 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #385 | #439 |
| Florida | 50 | #387 | #374 |
| Georgia | 29 | #398 | #433 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #405 | #245 |
| Illinois | 27 | #407 | #514 |
| Texas | 87 | #408 | #292 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #422 | #389 |
| Alabama | 12 | #434 | #303 |
| Colorado | 13 | #447 | #388 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #464 | #440 |
| Virginia | 17 | #465 | #376 |
| Iowa | 7 | #466 | #482 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #468 | #351 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #469 | #406 |
| Missouri | 13 | #471 | #380 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #484 | #428 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #491 | #346 |
| Kansas | 7 | #491 | #272 |
| Oregon | 7 | #499 | #412 |
| Ohio | 21 | #504 | #406 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #514 | #455 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #522 | #395 |
| Nevada | 5 | #544 | #229 |
| Michigan | 15 | #552 | #649 |
| Washington | 11 | #617 | #371 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 804 | #396 |
| 2024 | — | — | 830 | #393 |
| 2023 | — | — | 971 | #343 |
| 2022 | — | — | 857 | #379 |
| 2021 | — | — | 806 | #394 |
| 2020 | — | — | 845 | #368 |
| 2019 | — | — | 911 | #361 |
| 2018 | — | — | 891 | #367 |
| 2017 | — | — | 845 | #385 |
| 2016 | — | — | 834 | #384 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,010 | #340 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,679 | 1,191 | #297 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,148 | #305 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,200 | #294 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,304 | #267 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,159 | 1,443 | #243 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,874 | 1,755 | #214 |
| 2008 | — | — | 2,046 | #197 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,536 | 2,602 | #160 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,942 | 2,976 | #138 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,446 | 2,925 | #137 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,914 | 3,178 | #128 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,202 | 3,942 | #107 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,107 | 4,837 | #84 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,487 | 6,434 | #65 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,568 | 7,324 | #56 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,918 | 7,276 | #54 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,177 | 7,462 | #51 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,000 | 6,682 | #56 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,629 | 5,821 | #64 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,993 | 5,886 | #63 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,122 | 5,875 | #63 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,301 | 6,065 | #63 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,725 | 5,868 | #67 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,559 | 6,214 | #64 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,581 | 6,643 | #63 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,820 | 7,018 | #57 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,716 | 6,211 | #60 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,207 | 6,206 | #58 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,393 | 6,119 | #58 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,882 | 5,883 | #58 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,398 | 5,685 | #59 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,489 | 5,853 | #56 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,163 | 6,263 | #54 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,744 | 5,865 | #57 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,623 | 5,205 | #61 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,483 | 4,670 | #65 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,340 | 3,847 | #72 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,122 | 3,738 | #76 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,130 | 2,929 | #90 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,434 | 2,556 | #100 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,938 | 2,005 | #131 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,740 | 1,590 | #155 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,767 | 1,258 | #187 |
| 1971 | — | — | 1,072 | #218 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,496 | 748 | #284 |
| 1969 | — | — | 686 | #286 |
| 1968 | — | — | 519 | #337 |
| 1967 | — | — | 347 | #408 |
| 1966 | — | — | 259 | #476 |
| 1965 | — | — | 99 | #747 |
| 1964 | — | — | 81 | #848 |
| 1963 | — | — | 89 | #804 |
| 1962 | — | — | 76 | #876 |
| 1961 | — | — | 74 | #893 |
| 1960 | — | — | 62 | #970 |
| 1959 | — | — | 73 | #902 |
| 1958 | — | — | 79 | #853 |
| 1957 | — | — | 73 | #887 |
| 1956 | — | — | 80 | #837 |
| 1955 | — | — | 67 | #912 |
| 1954 | — | — | 90 | #753 |
| 1953 | — | — | 60 | #929 |
| 1952 | — | — | 57 | #946 |
| 1951 | — | — | 54 | #955 |
| 1950 | — | — | 64 | #857 |
| 1949 | — | — | 46 | #1,038 |
| 1948 | — | — | 50 | #995 |
| 1947 | — | — | 44 | #1,100 |
| 1946 | — | — | 44 | #1,037 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,093 |
| 1944 | — | — | 41 | #1,026 |
| 1943 | — | — | 49 | #967 |
| 1942 | — | — | 44 | #1,015 |
| 1941 | — | — | 50 | #900 |
| 1940 | — | — | 34 | #1,145 |
| 1939 | — | — | 43 | #963 |
| 1938 | — | — | 46 | #933 |
| 1937 | — | — | 38 | #1,043 |
| 1936 | — | — | 25 | #1,344 |
| 1935 | — | — | 23 | #1,438 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,813 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,959 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,750 |
| 1931 | — | — | 20 | #1,612 |
| 1930 | — | — | 24 | #1,514 |
| 1929 | — | — | 16 | #1,965 |
| 1928 | — | — | 18 | #1,869 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,915 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,648 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,666 |
| 1924 | — | — | 19 | #1,868 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,175 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,388 |
| 1921 | — | — | 11 | #2,710 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,675 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,583 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,461 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #2,041 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,332 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,925 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,080 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,043 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,416 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,717 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,040 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #940 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).