# Jere (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jere/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,437 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,278 / 1,159 (21% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 66 | 1,708 |
| 1983 | 33 | 2,694 |
| 1984 | 18 | 4,225 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,706 |
| 1986 | 10 | 6,804 |
| 1987 | 9 | 7,627 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,620 |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,674 |
| 1990 | 9 | 8,790 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,138 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,453 |
| 1995 | 5 | 14,377 |
| 1997 | 6 | 12,770 |
| 1998 | 7 | 11,667 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,277 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 12 | 5,286 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,186 |
| 2001 | 11 | 6,207 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8,004 |
| 2003 | 7 | 9,110 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,197 |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,663 |
| 2006 | 5 | 12,909 |
| 2007 | 5 | 13,260 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,396 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,167 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,143 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,340 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,950 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,196 |

## People named Jere

- Jere Uronen, Finnish footballer
- Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jere Burns, American actor (b. 1954)
- Jere Karalahti, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jere Sallinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jere Innala, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1998)
- Jere Hård, Finnish swimmer
- Jere Beasley, American politician
- Käärijä, Finnish rapper, singer and songwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.