Jaret
Jaret was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,486 among boys’ names; 2,991 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Jaret and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaret by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaret?
#5,486 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaret rose from #6,476 in 2015 to #5,486 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 10.0 per million.
359 babies in 1998, the peak
Jaret peaked in 1998, when 359 babies were given it (354 boys, #556 among boys’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,486 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,485 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,715 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,187 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,786 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,885 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,397 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,433 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,164 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,476 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,604 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,235 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,924 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,104 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,466 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,046 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 86 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 90 | #1,610 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 91 | #1,484 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,617 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,288 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 114 | #1,191 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 116 | #1,180 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 156 | #936 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 354 | #556 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 214 | #725 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,157 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,186 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 46 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,228 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 36 | #2,054 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,928 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,740 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,810 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 43 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 43 | #1,467 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 41 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 49 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,445 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 37 | #1,465 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 40 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,083 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,725 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,356 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,304 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaret a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaret has been given almost only to boys: 22 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaret: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaret, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,991 Americans ever recorded as Jaret. The median Jaret alive today is 28 years old; half are between 22 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,726 people named Jaret (112 women and girls, 2,614 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,819 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 383 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 579 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 202 |
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 Jaret born?
The states with the most babies named Jaret are Ohio, California and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 288 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 212 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 199 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jaret is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaret is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1964 it was given 2.3 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 Jaret with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jaret?
Jaret is a less common spelling of Jarrett: SSA has recorded 2,991 Jaret and 22,970 Jarrett since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 32,958 babies since 1880, Jaret is the fourth most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 82 babies (21%), 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 Jaret
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 Jaret and names like it
- Compare Jaret and JarrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaret peaked in 1998.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaret since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Jaret.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaret alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.