Jared
Feminine
Jared is given to boys far more often — 206,351 boys against 768 girls since 1880. See Jared as a boy name
Jared is a name from the early chapters of Genesis, recorded here for boys and girls alike. An ancient book outside the Bible took the name apart, found a verb in it, and built an entire mythology on the result.
How old is the name Jared?
Jared first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Jared alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 700 people named Jared are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jared most popular?
Jared peaked in 1982, reaching #2150 nationally. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jared
The Book of Enoch is not in most Bibles and was enormously influential anyway. It takes the line in Genesis about the sons of God coming down to earth and expands it into a full narrative: two hundred rebellious angels who descend, teach humans metalwork, cosmetics, astrology and weapons, father a race of giants, and are punished for it. The book specifies that this happened in the days of Jared, and it reads the name itself as the word for descent, treating the genealogy as a coded record of the event. The text survives complete only in Ethiopian, where it is canonical, and it shaped a great deal of later angelology that its readers assumed was scriptural.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Hebrew name has been read as connected to a verb meaning to descend, and the reading is not secure. It is one of a run of names in a genealogy, several of which resist explanation.
Pronouncing Jared
JAIR-ud
Two syllables with the stress in front. Nothing in it invites hesitation.
Nicknames for Jared
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 198247 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2150reached in 1982
- Change vs 2010
- +40.0%7 in 2014, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jareds among us
people named Jared are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jared sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly at first sight and never needs spelling out loud.
- Jed is available as a short form and is a complete name on its own.
- It has a documented scriptural history going back as far as written names go.
- This spelling goes overwhelmingly to boys but is recorded for girls as well, so a form will occasionally guess wrong.
- The meaning is not secure, so the usual reading given for it is a proposal rather than a fact.
- The figure in Genesis does nothing at all except live a long time and have a son.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jareds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jared are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jared in 2025?
- Jared is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jared with classmates?
- Jared will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with J, all years combined.
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