Jaren

Where Jaren comes from

Jaren hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1938
    First appearance
    #3,534 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1999
    Jaren Jackson Jr. born
    American basketball player
  4. 1999
    Peak, #614
    296 babies named Jaren — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2000
    Jaren Lewison born
    American actor
  6. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,324.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jaren Jackson Jr. · American basketball player, born 1999
  • Jaren Lewison · American actor, born 2000
  • Jaren Jackson · American basketball player, born 1967
  • Jaren Sina · Kosovan basketball player, born 1994
  • Jaren Holmes · American basketball player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.