Jared

  • [ JER-əd (English), JAR-əd (English) ]
  • English, Biblical
From the Hebrew name יָרֶד (Yared) or יֶרֶד (Yered) meaning "descent". This is the name of a close descendant of Adam in the Old Testament. It has been used as an English name since the Protestant Reformation, and it was popularized in the 1960s by the character Jarrod Barkley on the television series 'The Big Valley'.

EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Iared
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Yared, Yered
BIBLICAL LATIN: Iared
BIBLICAL: Jared
ENGLISH: Jared, Jarod, Jarred, Jarrod, Jerred, Jerrod
ETHIOPIAN: Yared
OTHER FORMS
ENGLISH: Jaron
POPULAR CULTURE: Jareth