Jarius
Jarius was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,294 among boys’ names; 1,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Jarius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jarius?
#5,294 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarius fell from #4,614 in 2015 to #5,294 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.5 per million.
89 babies in 2000, the peak
Jarius peaked in 2000, when 89 boys were given it, #1,400 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,294 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,531 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,026 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,991 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,875 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,106 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,227 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,656 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,005 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,848 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,614 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,650 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,116 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,794 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,271 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,704 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,778 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,698 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,353 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,266 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,019 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 72 | #1,750 | 36.3 |
| 2003 | 70 | #1,738 | 35.4 |
| 2002 | 81 | #1,533 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 64 | #1,768 | 32.9 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,400 | 45.3 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,388 | 44.3 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,422 | 41.9 |
| 1997 | 54 | #1,776 | 28.6 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,749 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 49 | #1,787 | 25.7 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,737 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 59 | #1,541 | 30.1 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,601 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,108 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,819 | 20.9 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,870 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,466 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,186 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,724 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,288 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,873 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,838 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,025 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,713 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,336 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,206 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,222 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,977 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,981 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,891 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,762 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,175 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jarius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarius, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,814 Americans ever recorded as Jarius. The median Jarius alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,434 people named Jarius (5 women and girls, 1,429 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 962 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 227 |
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 Jarius born?
The states with the most babies named Jarius are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 143 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 82 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 65 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 53 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 30 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 22 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jarius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jarius is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1972 it was given 2.5 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 Jarius 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,321 babies since 1880, Jarius is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 73 babies (25%), again the second 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 Jarius
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 Jarius and names like it
- Compare Jarius and JairusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJarius peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarius since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jarius.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jarius alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.