Jarrad
Masculine · “descent”
Four spellings of this name are in use and this is the only one that ends in an a. Jared, Jarod and Jarrod all close with an o or an e; Jarrad closes with the letter English uses for the neutral vowel most often, which makes it the most phonetically honest and the least expected.
How old is the name Jarrad?
Jarrad first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Jarrad alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 1,800 people named Jarrad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarrad most popular?
Jarrad peaked in 1982, reaching #933 nationally. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yered to Jarrad
The story of Jarrad
The Hebrew name sits in a list that is one of the strangest passages in scripture. Ten men are named in sequence from the first man to the flood, each with an age at fatherhood and an age at death, and the ages run to eight and nine hundred years. The man carrying this name is given nine hundred and sixty-two. What the numbers are doing has been argued about for two millennia — a different calendar, a symbolic scheme, a borrowing from Mesopotamian king lists where the figures are far larger still — and no explanation has settled the matter.
Meaningscholars disagree
descent
If the source is the Hebrew name the sense is descent or going down. If it is a respelling of a name descended from Garrett, the elements are Germanic and mean something else entirely. The record does not distinguish.
How the name formed
- Yered
- Jared
- Jarrad
Pronouncing Jarrad
JAIR-ud
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The final vowel is reduced to nothing, so all four spellings are identical aloud.
Nicknames for Jarrad
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
- 198894 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #933reached in 1982
- Change vs 2013
- −28.6%5 in 2015, from 7
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.
Jarrads among us
people named Jarrad 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
Jarrad 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 final a records the neutral vowel more honestly than the alternatives.
- The sound is settled even though the spelling is not.
- It is far rarer than the standard spellings while sounding the same.
- Three commoner spellings exist and this gets corrected to all of them.
- The origin is unsettled between a Hebrew and a Germanic candidate.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its use.
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- How many Jarrads are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Jarrad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jarrad in 2025?
- Jarrad is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Jarrad will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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