Jireh
#1,855 for girls in 2025, 107 births · #880 for boys in 2025, 271 births
Given to boys 59.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 285 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,898since 1987
Jireh over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,855 | 107 | #880 | 271 |
| 2024 | #1,743 | 116 | #933 | 247 |
| 2023 | #1,656 | 125 | #850 | 285 |
| 2022 | #1,885 | 107 | #1,022 | 217 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #1,565 | 111 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #3,193 | 36 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #3,231 | 35 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,916 | 38 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #3,512 | 46 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jireh! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jireh is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#536 · 1 in 2,826
- Texas#681 · 1 in 4,255
- Arizona#686 · 1 in 4,079
- Louisiana#724 · 1 in 3,553
- Maryland#724 · 1 in 4,142
Best ever in a state: #173 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #536 | 7 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Texas | #681 | 42 | 1 in 4,255 |
| Arizona | #686 | 8 | 1 in 4,079 |
| Louisiana | #724 | 6 | 1 in 3,553 |
| Maryland | #724 | 6 | 1 in 4,142 |
| Florida | #725 | 20 | 1 in 4,767 |
| Georgia | #767 | 12 | 1 in 4,269 |
| California | #874 | 27 | 1 in 7,005 |
| Tennessee | #912 | 6 | 1 in 5,985 |
| North Carolina | #944 | 8 | 1 in 6,370 |
| Virginia | #954 | 6 | 1 in 6,398 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,249 | 5 | 1 in 10,707 |
| New York | #1,457 | 7 | 1 in 12,454 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jireh
- 53 spots since 2024 (#933 → #880)
- 1,879 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #880)
- 2,351 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #880)
- Biggest jump: 172 spots in 2023 (#1,022 → #850)
- Biggest drop: 83 spots in 2024 (#850 → #933)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2023 at #850 (285 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,002 boys born in 2023 were named Jireh (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,303 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 61.9% of all boys named Jireh (1,175) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,951 (1987) | #6,951 |
| 1990s | 108 | #3,455 (1997) | #5,065 |
| 2000s | 236 | #3,045 (2009) | #3,971 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,623 (2013) | #3,096 |
| 2020s | 1,175 | #850 (2023) | #1,335 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jireh in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 15,328 of them was named Jireh, which outranked 89.4% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,870Mildred108
- #1,870Preslee108
- #1,870Taelynn108
- #1,885Jireh107
- #1,885Blanca107
- #1,885Dailyn107
- #1,885Danae107
- #1,898Ashtyn106
- #1,898Audriana106
- #1,898Elif106
Tied with 12 names at #1,885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 8,046 of them was named Jireh, which outranked 92.9% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).