Jarid
Masculine · “descent”
Jarid writes the second vowel with an i and leaves the first one long, which is a different respelling from the one that shortens the front. The biblical name behind it had a substantial second life in America that has nothing to do with the Bible: a people called Jaredites appear in the Book of Mormon, and the name has been notably common in Utah ever since.
How old is the name Jarid?
Jarid first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Jarid alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,300 people named Jarid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarid most popular?
Jarid peaked in 1989, reaching #1258 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A name from the earliest genealogies of Genesis to Jarid
The story of Jarid
The Book of Mormon opens with a people who leave the Near East at the confusion of tongues and cross to the Americas, and they take their name from a figure called Jared. That narrative has been read by several million people since eighteen thirty, most of them concentrated in one part of the United States, and the effect on the register is visible: the name and its relatives run considerably higher in Utah and the surrounding states than in the country as a whole, and have done for well over a century. It is one of the clearest regional signals in American naming, and it belongs to a book rather than to a person, which is unusual.
Meaningscholars disagree
descent
The Hebrew name is usually connected to a verb meaning to go down, and that is the standard reading though the name may be older than the etymology offered for it. It sits in the earliest genealogical layer of Genesis, where the derivations given in the text are frequently puns rather than linguistic accounts. The respelled vowel changes nothing about the question.
How the name formed
- A name from the earliest genealogies of Genesis
- A people named after a Jared in the Book of Mormon
- Concentrated in Utah and the surrounding states
- Jarid as one of several American respellings
Related forms: Yered
Pronouncing Jarid
JAIR-id
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long first vowel. The i in the second syllable writes a vowel reduced almost to nothing, which is why it can be spelled with an e or an i without any audible difference.
Nicknames for Jarid
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
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 198974 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1258reached in 1989
- Change vs 2012
- −16.7%5 in 2016, from 6
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.
Jarid in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yered in Hebrew — same name
Jarids among us
people named Jarid are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jarid sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is completely familiar and needs no coaching.
- It carries a genuine biblical name with an unusual American afterlife.
- It is distinctive on paper while being ordinary in speech.
- Jared is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected into it constantly.
- The regional association is strong enough that the name signals a place to some people.
- The respelled vowel is inaudible, so the spelling has to be given every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jarids are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Jarid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jarid in 2025?
- Jarid is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Jarid will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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