Jareth
Jareth was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,879 among boys’ names; 2,113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Jareth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jareth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jareth?
#1,879 among boys’ names, 2025
Jareth rose from #2,444 in 2015 to #1,879 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 49.2 per million.
90 babies in 2024, the peak
Jareth peaked in 2024, when 90 boys were given it, #1,812 among boys’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,879 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 90 | #1,812 | 52.2 |
| 2023 | 89 | #1,808 | 52.0 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,421 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,707 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 53 | #2,449 | 30.7 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,376 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,366 | 30.8 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,362 | 29.7 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,192 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,444 | 27.1 |
| 2014 | 73 | #1,969 | 38.0 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,377 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,308 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,419 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,445 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 75 | #1,915 | 37.8 |
| 2008 | 84 | #1,780 | 41.2 |
| 2007 | 76 | #1,882 | 36.6 |
| 2006 | 74 | #1,848 | 36.0 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,249 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,059 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,137 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,875 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,225 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,762 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,968 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,248 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,515 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,631 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,712 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,644 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,737 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,488 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,930 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,668 | 23.9 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,929 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,486 | 26.6 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,445 | 26.8 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,268 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jareth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,113 Americans recorded as Jareth, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 84 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jareth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jareth, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,113 Americans ever recorded as Jareth. The median Jareth alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,529 people named Jareth (101 women and girls, 1,428 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 888 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 828 |
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 Jareth born?
The states with the most babies named Jareth are New York, California and New Jersey, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #817 | 0.3× |
| California | 7 | #2,080 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #867 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,716 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #901 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,157 | 0.1× |
Where Jareth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jareth is most over-represented in California: since 1986 it was given 1.1 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 Jareth 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,163 babies since 1880, Jareth is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 84 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Jareth
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 Jareth and names like it
- Compare Jareth and JarrethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJareth peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jareth since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jareth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jareth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.