first name
JARED
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 180,306 people named Jared, 76.4% reported their origin as White, 11.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.4% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jared peaked in 1998, when 7,478 babies got the name.
At least 207,119 babies have been given the name since 1881. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jared by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #111. The largest share of babies named Jared, 47.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jared is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jared has been most common in Utah (3.8×), Idaho (2.7×), and Alaska (2.4×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.43×).
204,144 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jared
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jared, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jared ranks #19,539 of 156,621, with 1,383 people. See Jared as a last name
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