How Many People Are Named Jere?
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
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
166 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
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.
⚧ Gender Distribution
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.
📈 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.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #498 (1941) | #1,422 (1947) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| 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.
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