How Many People Are Named Jere?

2,961

people named Jere are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 115,428 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,437 babies named Jere in Social Security records from 1881 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,205

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Gender-Neutral Names

#339

See the top 100

Peak Year

1941

166 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Finnish, English
Pronunciation: YE-re (Finnish), JER-ee (English)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Diminutive of JEREMIAH.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jere in English. Counting Jere and these spellings together, about 383,235 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

IeremiasYirmiyahuHieremiasJeremiahJeremyBRITISHJezJezzaJemJemmyJerryJarkkoJérémieJeremiasYahweh

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
26.9%
Male
73.1%

Of the babies given the name Jere, 26.9% were girls and 73.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Jere rose from 13.4% in the 1920s to 30.7% in the 1990s. It was highest in the 1980s, at 51.8%.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jere alive today is about 64 years old, and 66% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 76 in 2025.

Under 30 137
4.6%
30 to 59 856
28.9%
60 and over 1,969
66.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jere first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1941, to 166 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Jere has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #498, in 1941. Among girls, its best rank was #1,422, in 1947.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025Not rankedNot ranked
Best rank#498 (1941)#1,422 (1947)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#633 in the 1940s#1,693 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jere alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jere were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 283 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jere was given 10.7 times as often in Tennessee, 4.8 times in Pennsylvania and 1.9 times in California.

Pennsylvania 283
Tennessee 171
California 128
Texas 71
New York 31
Michigan 31
Georgia 29
Ohio 19
Florida 14
Wisconsin 11
Louisiana 11
New Jersey 8
Illinois 8
Kansas 7
Massachusetts 5
Maryland 4
Minnesota 4
Washington 3
Alabama 3
Missouri 3
Oklahoma 2
Maine 2
Indiana 1

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