Jere
Jere reached its high-water mark in 1941 at number 498, and has been recorded 5,437 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 3,000 Jeres are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jere boys named Jere
Girls and boys called Jere
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,159 girls and 4,278 boys in all, and in 1986 the split was 10 to 16.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 56 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,437
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1941
- Best rank
- 498th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 1,159 / 4,278
How old the living Jeres are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,437 babies given the name since 1881, about 3,000 are alive — 54 in every hundred. Roughly 40 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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.
Notable Jeres
- Jere Uronen (born 1994)Finnish footballer
- Jere Lehtinen (born 1973)Finnish ice hockey player
- Jere Burns (born 1954)American actor
- Jere Karalahti (born 1975)Finnish ice hockey player
People named Jere with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jere is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jere is most concentrated in Tennessee (11.6×), Pennsylvania (5.9×), Georgia (1.6×), California (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1941
The most popular boys’ names the year Jere peaked:
Jere 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 | Jere | 10,019 | 10,897 |
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.
Related names
Jere 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.