Yared
Saint Yared was an Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system.
- Biblical Hebrew
- Ethiopian
Meaning & Origin of Yared
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Saint Yared was an Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical Hebrew
- Ethiopian
The Story of Yared
As a girl name
Yared first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1992, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2001: 10 births, good for #9,351 nationwide. About 53% of every Yared on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Yared last appeared in the published SSA data in 2014, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 87 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Yared first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1992, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2023: 45 births, good for #2,801 nationwide. About 32% of every Yared on record arrived during the 2020s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Yared ranks #3,281 for boys with 37 births, rising sharply (+36% over the past five years). All told, over 757 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Yared
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Yared. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Yared
Phonetically similar names — useful when Yared is the vibe but a different syllable count or letter feel might suit better. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Yeared
- Yard
- Yarde
- Wared
- Whered
- Weird
- Wierd
- Yera
- Yed
- Weard
- Weared
- Yare
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About the name Yared
Yared is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 757 births in the dataset. Yared's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #2,801. Use the chart and map above to compare Yared's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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