Jarod
Masculine · “descent”
Jarod is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 11,799 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Jarod is one of four spellings of a name with two possible parents — the Hebrew Jared from the genealogies of Genesis, and the Germanic Garrett, which means something entirely different.
How old is the name Jarod?
Jarod first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Jarod alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 11,500 people named Jarod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarod most popular?
Jarod peaked in 1998, reaching #275 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 8,635 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yered to Jarod
The story of Jarod
Jared is one of the antediluvian patriarchs listed in Genesis, and Protestant families used the name lightly from the Reformation. It rose sharply in twentieth-century America, and the respellings followed the pattern of the period — Jarod, Jarrod, Jarred, Jerod — each with its own line on the chart. Jarod peaked in the early 1990s, the last of the four to arrive.
Meaningscholars disagree
descent
Read as a spelling of Jared, the meaning is the Hebrew Yered, 'descent' or 'he descends'. Read as a spelling of Garrett or Jarrett, it is the Germanic ger, 'spear', and hard, 'brave'. The two are unrelated and the spelling does not choose between them.
How the name formed
- Yered
- Jared
- Jarod
Related forms: Yered · Jared · Jarrod
Pronouncing Jarod
JA-rud
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings are said the same way in most American accents.
Nicknames for Jarod
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
- 1966
- Most boys named
- 1999778 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #275reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- −52.9%8 in 2025, from 17
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.
Jarod in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yered in Hebrew — related form
- Jared in English — spelling variant
- Jarrod in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Jarods among us
people named Jarod are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Jarod
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jarod
- #8910
- Jarod on the 2025 chart
- #908
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jarod went to 8 boys in 2025, but Jarrod is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 20, which makes it the 908th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,002 places above the chart.
- Jarrod12
- Jarod8
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 213,510 for Jarod 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 Marlin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jarod's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marlin climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marlin's path sketches the road Jarod is walking now.
Jarod 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
Jarod beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jarod in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jared behind it has a documented biblical source reaching back three thousand years.
- Two firm syllables that pair well with almost any surname.
- No pronunciation ambiguity at all in English.
- At least four spellings were in use at once, so it will be written wrongly often.
- The parentage is genuinely split between unrelated Hebrew and Germanic names.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Masculine · #8910 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Jarods are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,500 people named Jarod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jarod?
- Jarod is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jarrod is the more common one — 12 births in 2025 against 8 for Jarod.
- How popular is the name Jarod in 2025?
- Jarod ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jarod?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Jarod — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jarod with classmates?
- Jarod will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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