Fun Facts About the Name Jered
- More than 3 thousand babies named Jered: U.S. records list 3,797 babies given the name Jered from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Jered Mean?
Jered is an English spelling variant of Jared, a name taken from the Hebrew Yéred (יֶרֶד). The Hebrew name is usually connected with the root y-r-d, "to descend," and its established meaning is rendered as "descent" or "he who descends." The same name appears in the Greek of the New Testament as Iared (Ἰάρεδ) and in the Latin Bible as Iared, forms that carried it into English through Bible translation. A few later writers have glossed the name as "rosy" or "beautiful," but that reading is a symbolic association rather than the literal etymology; the derivation from the Hebrew root of descent is the one generally accepted.
Jered Name History & Origins
The name is best known from the Hebrew Bible, where Yéred is the father of Enoch and stands in the line of descent from Adam (Genesis 5). The Greek Septuagint and the New Testament genealogy in Luke 3 both preserve the name as Iared, and the Latin Vulgate kept the same form. English Bibles, above all the King James Version of 1611, rendered it as Jared, and that spelling became the ordinary English form.
Jered is a respelling of that same biblical name rather than a separate name with its own origin. It follows a common English pattern in which the unstressed vowel of a biblical name is written with e instead of a. It is used in the United States and other English-speaking countries as an alternative to the more common Jared, and it remains a relatively uncommon spelling. Related forms in other languages include Iared in Greek and Latin tradition and Yared in Amharic and other Ethiopian usage, where the biblical figure is remembered in Christian tradition.
How Popular is the Name Jered?
Jered recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1982. Its best rank was #654 in 1982.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,544 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #10,306 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #11,445 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #8,608 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #11,358 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #7,229 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #13,006 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #13,042 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #11,391 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #11,339 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #9,122 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #6,455 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2013 | #5,277 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2012 | #4,936 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2011 | #5,802 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2010 | #6,525 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2009 | #4,096 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2008 | #4,614 | 21 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #3,737 | 28 | 0.0013% |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 31 | 0.0015% |
| 2005 | #3,417 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2004 | #3,322 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2003 | #2,295 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2002 | #2,450 | 41 | 0.0021% |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 58 | 0.0030% |
| 2000 | #1,492 | 82 | 0.0042% |
| 1999 | #1,549 | 72 | 0.0037% |
| 1998 | #1,388 | 84 | 0.0044% |
| 1997 | #1,380 | 80 | 0.0042% |
| 1996 | #1,319 | 83 | 0.0044% |
| 1995 | #1,410 | 71 | 0.0037% |
| 1994 | #1,108 | 104 | 0.0054% |
| 1993 | #1,134 | 99 | 0.0050% |
| 1992 | #981 | 122 | 0.0061% |
| 1991 | #1,086 | 101 | 0.0050% |
| 1990 | #916 | 126 | 0.0061% |
| 1989 | #867 | 135 | 0.0067% |
| 1988 | #845 | 127 | 0.0066% |
| 1987 | #779 | 140 | 0.0075% |
| 1986 | #728 | 154 | 0.0084% |
| 1985 | #731 | 146 | 0.0079% |
| 1984 | #661 | 171 | 0.0095% |
| 1983 | #691 | 155 | 0.0086% |
| 1982 | #654 | 177 | 0.0098% |
| 1981 | #710 | 148 | 0.0083% |
| 1980 | #705 | 152 | 0.0085% |
| 1979 | #759 | 131 | 0.0076% |
| 1978 | #851 | 102 | 0.0062% |
| 1977 | #889 | 92 | 0.0056% |
| 1976 | #841 | 99 | 0.0063% |
| 1975 | #934 | 77 | 0.0049% |
| 1974 | #973 | 71 | 0.0045% |
| 1973 | #1,098 | 55 | 0.0035% |
| 1972 | #1,257 | 44 | 0.0027% |
| 1971 | #1,408 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 1970 | #1,909 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1969 | #2,011 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1968 | #1,988 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1967 | #3,103 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1966 | #3,709 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #2,947 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1957 | #4,258 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1953 | #3,609 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1949 | #3,956 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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