Jared

What Jared means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jared yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #396 vs #1,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jared?

US: Falling: down from #340 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #646 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1998, when 7,462 boys got the name (#51 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 2,124 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (2.2 per 1,000 boys), NJ (1.06 per 1,000 boys), UT (0.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jared is #396 in the US and #1705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jared were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jaret17 US
• Jarrod12 US · 4 E&W
• Jarad13 US
• Jarred12 US
• Jered9 US
• Jarod8 US
• Jarett8 US
• Jahred5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Jarred
• Jarrod

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Jared

Boys

• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Ruben#480Editor’s note Down from #374 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 in the US
• Matthew#32“gift of the Lord”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*

For a sister

• Maria#87Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 10,148 babies; 2,887 in 2025
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jared’s. Rank is US 2025.