Jarl
Jarl was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 137 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jarl mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Jarl is “a male given name”
From the title of jarl (earl), used as a given name since the 19th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jarl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,681, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1926, the peak
Jarl peaked in 1926, when 8 boys were given it, #3,254 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #4,681 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,469 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,902 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,162 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,162 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,819 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,307 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,747 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,081 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 | #4,061 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,221 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,959 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,952 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,982 | 4.4 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,901 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,041 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,433 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,254 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,557 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,100 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,535 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,622 | 4.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,473 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarl has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jarl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarl, and how old are they?
An estimated 64 Americans named Jarl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Jarl (8 women and girls, 225 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 74 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,677 babies since 1880, Jarl is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 86 babies recorded by SSA was a Jarl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Jarl and names like it
- Compare Jarl and JarellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJarl peaked in 1926.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jarl: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Jarl.
- Names starting with JMost given first.