girls:
768 births since 1970
#4948 (13th percentile)
boys:
204.7k births since 1881
#178 (96th percentile)
overall:
205.5k births since 1881
#381 (95th percentile)
The name Jared is the #381 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 205,471 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 95.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #178 (96.1% percentile) for all time with 204,703 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,948 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 768 births since 1970.
Jared first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Jared is available in 115 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 40 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jared has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jared reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 93.7% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,680 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3,680 births per million (ranked 93.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jared ranks #324 for boys (64.5% percentile) with 529 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jared reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #751) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jared".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jared. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 49.0% confident that Jared is pronounced as JEH-ruhd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-rihd, at 34.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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