The English version of the Hebrew name Yared, Jared also means ‘descent’. Alternative suggestions for the name’s etymology include words for ‘rose’, ‘servant’ and ‘one who rules’.
Jared is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Jared isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jared ranks 331. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Jared. In the entire USA, approximately 201,211 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jared. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
This was a real surprise! Jared is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #50 in the year 1998, when 7,477 parents chose this name for their newborn son. This made Jared much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this boys' name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jared was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jared ranked 362 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn boys a total of 855 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Jared will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jared is one of them. However, Jared is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Utah seem to particularly fancy this name – the 6,314 men called Jared who live here are 0,464% of all male residents and push their name up to #45 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Utah. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 201,211 people with the name Jared. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jared on position 171 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Jared is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jared and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jared, you can simply say:
Joker
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
R
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D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
R
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D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jared sounds like this:
