Jared
About 207,119 American babies have been named Jared since 1881, most of them around 1998. In 2025 it ranked 396th. About 197,000 Jareds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jared boys named Jared
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 207,119
- Estimated living today
- 197,000
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 51st
- Rank in 2025
- 396th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 768 / 206,351
How old the living Jareds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 207,119 babies given the name since 1881, about 197,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 770 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Latin Iared, from Ancient Greek Ἰαρέδ, from Biblical Hebrew יֶרֶד. Often explained as deriving from the root י־ר־ד, which forms words relating to descending (see Jordan and ירדן for more); some interpret the Book of Enoch as suggesting that the Jared in the Bible was so named because it was in his time that two hundred angels descended from Heaven to Mount Hermon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jareds
- Jared Leto (born 1971)American actor, singer, musician and songwriter
- Jared Diamond (born 1937)American scientist, historian, and author
- Jared Padalecki (born 1982)American actor
- Jared Kushner (born 1981)American businessman and real estate investor
- Jared Fogle (born 1977)American spokesperson and sex offender
- Jared Harris (born 1961)British actor
- Jared Polis (born 1975)American politician
- Jared Borgetti (born 1973)Mexican footballer
People named Jared with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jared is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jared is most concentrated in Utah (3.8×), Idaho (2.7×), Alaska (2.4×), Nevada (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Jared peaked:
Jared elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Jared | 2,840 | 43rd |
| England and Wales boys | Jared | 2,690 | 196th |
| France boys | Jared | 470 | 957th |
| Scotland boys | Jared | 223 | 214th |
| Ireland boys | Jared | 120 | 228th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jared | 33 | 213th |
| Belgium boys | Jared | 18 | 1,094th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jared among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jared | 33 | 48 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jared lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 807 men called Jared were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Jared | 91 | 0.156 | 616 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jared | 65 | 0.122 | 771 |
| Barcelona | Jared | 187 | 0.064 | 948 |
| Burgos | Jared | 11 | 0.061 | 902 |
| Tarragona | Jared | 24 | 0.055 | 1,155 |
| Girona | Jared | 18 | 0.043 | 1,373 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jared against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.