Jarret
Masculine · “spear-strong”
Jarret arrived at the front of the name from more than one direction. It is a surname, it is a respelling of Garrett, and it sits close enough to Jared to be reached from there too. It is also, in French, an ordinary word for the back of the knee.
How old is the name Jarret?
Jarret first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Jarret alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 3,300 people named Jarret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarret most popular?
Jarret peaked in 1990, reaching #881 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
Where it comes from
From Gerard to Jarret
The story of Jarret
The French word is worth knowing about because it explains the surname. A jarret is the hollow behind the knee, and by extension the hock of an animal and the cut of meat from it — jarret de veau is on menus all over France. Names of that kind became surnames readily in medieval France, applied to butchers, to people with a notable gait, or as plain nicknames. The English Jarrett is more likely to descend from Garrett, which is itself two Germanic names that fell together in Norman French. Both roads end in the same American spelling, and the first name is a twentieth-century arrival in either case.
Meaningscholars disagree
spear-strong, or spear-rule
If the name goes back to Garrett, it descends from one of two Germanic names that collapsed together, one ending in hard and one in wald. If it came in from Jared, the source is Hebrew and entirely different. The record does not distinguish them.
How the name formed
- Gerard
- Garrett
- Jarret
Related forms: Jarret · Garrett
Pronouncing Jarret
JAIR-ut
Two syllables with the weight at the front, the second reduced to a hum. Jarret and Jarrett are said identically.
Nicknames for Jarret
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
- 1946
- Most boys named
- 1990136 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #881reached in 1990
- Change vs 2021
- 0.0%7 in 2023, 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.
Jarret in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jarret in French — related form
- Garrett in English — related form
Jarrets among us
people named Jarret 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
Jarret 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
- Both syllables are ordinary in English and the name is read correctly at sight.
- Rett is a ready short form with a life of its own.
- It works as a surname and as a first name, which suits families that use both.
- Jarrett, Garrett and Jarret are all live spellings and all will be written for you.
- Its parentage is honestly double, so a family cannot be told which line is theirs.
- It reads as a name of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jarrets are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Jarret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jarret in 2025?
- Jarret is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jarret with classmates?
- Jarret will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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