Jarrod
Jarrod was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,968 among boys’ names; 25,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,700 Americans named Jarrod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarrod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jarrod mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jarrod is “a male given name.”
Variant of Jared.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jarrod?
#6,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarrod fell from #1,968 in 2015 to #6,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.6 to 7.0 per million.
1,150 babies in 1980, the peak
Jarrod peaked in 1980, when 1,150 babies were given it (1,145 boys, #213 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,968 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,770 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,141 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,371 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,854 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,163 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,743 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,862 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,579 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,806 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 74 | #1,968 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,439 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 69 | #1,997 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,642 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 99 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 94 | #1,677 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 86 | #1,754 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 99 | #1,586 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,342 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,185 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 157 | #1,040 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 208 | #837 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 240 | #733 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 349 | #581 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 410 | #534 | 0.21 |
| 1999 | 528 | #436 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 618 | #396 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 537 | #425 | 0.28 |
| 1996 | 371 | #531 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 400 | #510 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 454 | #474 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 527 | #426 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 595 | #386 | 0.30 |
| 1991 | 689 | #353 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 792 | #318 | 0.39 |
| 1989 | 833 | #293 | 0.42 |
| 1988 | 832 | #279 | 0.43 |
| 1987 | 828 | #263 | 0.44 |
| 1986 | 839 | #264 | 0.46 |
| 1985 | 900 | #250 | 0.49 |
| 1984 | 794 | #264 | 0.44 |
| 1983 | 960 | #234 | 0.54 |
| 1982 | 1,044 | #224 | 0.58 |
| 1981 | 1,006 | #233 | 0.56 |
| 1980 | 1,145 | #213 | 0.64 |
| 1979 | 1,046 | #219 | 0.61 |
| 1978 | 913 | #230 | 0.56 |
| 1977 | 846 | #244 | 0.51 |
| 1976 | 724 | #267 | 0.46 |
| 1975 | 669 | #288 | 0.43 |
| 1974 | 631 | #295 | 0.40 |
| 1973 | 470 | #355 | 0.30 |
| 1972 | 520 | #339 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 508 | #356 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 394 | #410 | 0.21 |
| 1969 | 318 | #443 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 353 | #410 | 0.20 |
| 1967 | 263 | #469 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 219 | #513 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,749 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarrod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarrod has been given almost only to boys: 65 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jarrod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarrod, and how old are they?
23,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 25,351 Americans ever recorded as Jarrod. The median Jarrod alive today is 41 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 21,186 people named Jarrod (24 women and girls, 21,162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,020 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 8,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 522 |
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 Jarrod born?
The states with the most babies named Jarrod are California, Texas and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,249 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 2,237 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 1,664 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 1,431 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,073 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 844 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 808 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 785 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 774 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 762 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Jarrod is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jarrod is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1965 it was given 1.9 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 Jarrod 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, Jarrod is the second most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 849 babies (1.4%), the third 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 Jarrod
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 Jarrod and names like it
- Compare Jarrod and JaredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJarrod peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarrod since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Jarrod.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jarrod alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.