Jarad
Jarad was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,610 among boys’ names; 2,178 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Jarad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 32 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jarad?
#6,610 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarad rose from #9,990 in 2015 to #6,610 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 7.6 per million.
115 babies in 1983, the peak
Jarad peaked in 1983, when 115 boys were given it, #815 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,610 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,313 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,323 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,978 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,212 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,785 | 7.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,990 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,077 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,350 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,588 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #10,233 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,135 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,628 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,207 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,691 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,737 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,015 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,590 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 51 | #1,910 | 26.6 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,749 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,109 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 57 | #1,677 | 30.1 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,963 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,691 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,381 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,620 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 65 | #1,409 | 32.2 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,206 | 39.9 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,072 | 47.5 |
| 1988 | 108 | #918 | 56.4 |
| 1987 | 102 | #937 | 54.6 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,051 | 42.9 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,024 | 43.3 |
| 1984 | 89 | #935 | 49.3 |
| 1983 | 115 | #815 | 64.2 |
| 1982 | 100 | #896 | 55.1 |
| 1981 | 101 | #887 | 56.4 |
| 1980 | 90 | #949 | 50.4 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,009 | 45.3 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,022 | 44.5 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,166 | 34.7 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,086 | 38.2 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,571 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,721 | 17.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,951 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,368 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,885 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,651 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,747 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jarad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarad, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,178 Americans ever recorded as Jarad. The median Jarad alive today is 39 years old; half are between 32 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,902 people named Jarad (2 women and girls, 1,900 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 441 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 297 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jarad born?
The states with the most babies named Jarad are Pennsylvania, California and Texas, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 136 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 104 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jarad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jarad is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1969 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jarad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 264,213 babies since 1880, Jarad is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 849 babies (1.5%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jarad
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jarad and names like it
- Compare Jarad and JaredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJarad peaked in 1983.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarad since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Jarad.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jarad alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.