Jarod
Jarod was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,247 among boys’ names; 11,804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Jarod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 26 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jarod?
#9,247 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarod fell from #2,996 in 2015 to #9,247 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 4.7 per million.
1,045 babies in 1998, the peak
Jarod peaked in 1998, when 1,045 boys were given it, #275 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,247 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,532 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,274 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,992 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,641 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,757 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,574 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,998 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,618 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,827 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,996 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,729 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,022 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,182 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,220 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,013 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 96 | #1,618 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 114 | #1,395 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 168 | #988 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 234 | #758 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 399 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 656 | #388 | 0.34 |
| 2000 | 599 | #416 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 778 | #344 | 0.41 |
| 1998 | 1,045 | #275 | 0.55 |
| 1997 | 738 | #348 | 0.39 |
| 1996 | 216 | #722 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 162 | #845 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 186 | #773 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 208 | #716 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 188 | #756 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 228 | #670 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 255 | #632 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 277 | #588 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 249 | #590 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 273 | #551 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 254 | #559 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 305 | #498 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 300 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 351 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 380 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1981 | 355 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 371 | #425 | 0.21 |
| 1979 | 317 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1978 | 233 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 218 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 204 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 162 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 114 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 115 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 92 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 89 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 39 | #1,343 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,225 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,871 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,705 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarod has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jarod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarod, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 11,804 Americans ever recorded as Jarod. The median Jarod alive today is 30 years old; half are between 26 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 10,754 people named Jarod (24 women and girls, 10,730 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,346 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 | 1,860 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,970 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 297 |
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 Jarod born?
The states with the most babies named Jarod are California, Texas and Ohio, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,013 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 912 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 672 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 479 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 478 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 471 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 397 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 393 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 365 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 272 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Jarod is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jarod is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1966 it was given 1.8 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 Jarod 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, Jarod is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 849 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Jarod
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 Jarod and names like it
- Compare Jarod and JaredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJarod peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarod since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Jarod.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jarod alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.