Jaret
Masculine · “Descent”
Jaret is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,969 boys against 22 girls since 1880.
Jaret is Jared with a t, and Jared is one of the antediluvian patriarchs — a name from the long list of ages in Genesis 5, where he lives nine hundred and sixty-two years. The single-t spelling belongs to the 1990s.
How old is the name Jaret?
Jaret first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Jaret alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 2,900 people named Jaret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaret most popular?
Jaret peaked in 1998, reaching #555 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 4,844 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Yered to Jaret
The story of Jaret
Jared is the father of Enoch in Genesis 5, and the name was used by English Puritans along with the rest of the antediluvian list. Its American life is chiefly modern: it was rare until the 1960s, rose steeply through the 1970s — helped by a character in the television western The Big Valley — and stayed in the American top hundred for two decades. Respellings followed as they always do, and Jarred, Jarett, Jarrett and Jaret all appear behind it; Jaret peaks in 1998, at the far end of the parent name's run. Jarrett is separately an English surname from Gerald, which complicates the family further.
Meaningscholars disagree
Descent
From Hebrew Yered or Yāred, generally connected to the verb yārad, to go down, giving descent or the one who descends. The reading is standard but not certain; the name belongs to the antediluvian list, whose members' names are frequently obscure. The Jaret spelling is an American variant of Jared, and the change from d to t has no separate history.
How the name formed
- Yered
- Jared
- Jaret
Related forms: יֶרֶד · Jared
Pronouncing Jaret
JAIR-it
Two syllables, stress on the first. The t and d endings are close enough in American speech that Jared and Jaret are often indistinguishable.
Nicknames for Jaret
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1964
- Most boys named
- 1998354 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #555reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −26.1%17 in 2025, from 23
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jaret in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- יֶרֶד in Hebrew — related form
- Jared in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jarets among us
people named Jaret are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Jaret
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaret
- #5399
- Jaret on the 2025 chart
- #846
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaret went to 17 boys in 2025, but Jarrett and Jarett are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 82, which makes it the 846th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,553 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 20,830 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 100,475 for Jaret itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lenny test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaret's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lenny climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lenny's path sketches the road Jaret is walking now.
Jaret sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jaret beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaret in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a genuine biblical bearer and a documented Hebrew reading.
- Jay and Rett both work as short forms.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- Jared is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- Jared, Jarred, Jaret, Jarett and Jarrett are five spellings of nearly one sound.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s through 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jarets are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Jaret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaret?
- Jaret is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jarrett is the more common one — 57 births in 2025 against 17 for Jaret.
- How popular is the name Jaret in 2025?
- Jaret ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaret?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaret — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaret with classmates?
- Jaret will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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