Meaning not yet researched.
Jered: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #654 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #654 in 1982; #8,544 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jered in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,544 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #654.
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Jered: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #654 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 177 (1982).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jered, making it the 8,544th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,802 places from #10,346 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 boys named Jered in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #654, reached in 1982. That year also had the most boys given the name: 177. For comparison, it was #9,122 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jered in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 3,797 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,505 babies named Jered.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 70 US boys were named Jered; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jerrod (9,371 babies since 1880), Jerod (6,014 babies since 1880), Jerad (3,784 babies since 1880) and Jerrad (1,751 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Jered in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,544 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,346 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,457 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,614 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,367 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,234 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #13,014 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #13,048 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,392 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #11,341 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #9,122 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,458 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,278 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,937 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,804 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,525 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,096 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,737 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,414 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,417 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,322 |
| 2003 | — | — | 47 | #2,295 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,450 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,901 |
| 2000 | — | — | 82 | #1,492 |
| 1999 | — | — | 72 | #1,549 |
| 1998 | — | — | 84 | #1,388 |
| 1997 | — | — | 80 | #1,380 |
| 1996 | — | — | 83 | #1,319 |
| 1995 | — | — | 71 | #1,410 |
| 1994 | — | — | 104 | #1,108 |
| 1993 | — | — | 99 | #1,134 |
| 1992 | — | — | 122 | #981 |
| 1991 | — | — | 101 | #1,085 |
| 1990 | — | — | 126 | #916 |
| 1989 | — | — | 135 | #867 |
| 1988 | — | — | 127 | #845 |
| 1987 | — | — | 140 | #780 |
| 1986 | — | — | 154 | #728 |
| 1985 | — | — | 146 | #731 |
| 1984 | — | — | 171 | #660 |
| 1983 | — | — | 155 | #691 |
| 1982 | — | — | 177 | #654 |
| 1981 | — | — | 148 | #710 |
| 1980 | — | — | 152 | #705 |
| 1979 | — | — | 131 | #759 |
| 1978 | — | — | 102 | #851 |
| 1977 | — | — | 92 | #889 |
| 1976 | — | — | 99 | #841 |
| 1975 | — | — | 77 | #934 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #972 |
| 1973 | — | — | 55 | #1,098 |
| 1972 | — | — | 44 | #1,257 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,408 |
| 1970 | — | — | 22 | #1,908 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #2,011 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #1,988 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,710 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,947 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,256 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,608 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,956 |
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).