Jarrid
Masculine
Jarrid can be reached from two names that have nothing in common. Jared is Hebrew and belongs to a man in the genealogies of Genesis; Jarrod is Germanic, a form of Garrett, and means something about a spear. The spelling sits between them and cannot choose.
How old is the name Jarrid?
Jarrid first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Jarrid alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,100 people named Jarrid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarrid most popular?
Jarrid peaked in 1990, reaching #1361 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Yered to Jarrid
The story of Jarrid
The Hebrew Jared is one of the long-lived figures in the list before the flood, and the text gives him nine hundred and sixty-two years and almost nothing else: he is the son of one man and the father of another, and the other is Enoch, who is the interesting one, since the genealogy says he walked with God and was not, because God took him, and stops there. Everybody else in the chapter dies in the usual formula. That single break in the pattern has generated an entire literature of speculation over three thousand years, most of it attached to Enoch rather than to his father, who exists in the record as a number and a pair of relationships.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Two candidate sources with unrelated meanings. The Hebrew name is usually read as descent or descending, though the derivation is not secure; the Germanic one joins a word for a spear to one meaning rule or hardness. A spelling that could come from either has no meaning of its own, and giving it one means choosing without evidence.
How the name formed
- Yered
- Jared
- Jarrid
Related forms: Yered
Pronouncing Jarrid
JAIR-id
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled r keeps the first vowel short and the final vowel is reduced to nothing, which is why Jarrid, Jarrod and Jarred are all said nearly identically in American speech.
Nicknames for Jarrid
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 199067 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1361reached in 1990
- Change vs 2013
- 0.0%6 in 2015, 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.
Jarrid in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yered in Hebrew — transliteration
Jarrids among us
people named Jarrid 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
Jarrid 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 entirely familiar and never needs to be repeated.
- The doubled r settles the first vowel, which the single-r spelling leaves open.
- It is genuinely uncommon while containing nothing unfamiliar.
- Jared, Jarrod and Jarrett are all commoner and all will be substituted.
- Two possible parents means two possible meanings and no way to choose.
- It is closely dated to the last decades of the twentieth century.
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- How many Jarrids are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Jarrid are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jarrid in 2025?
- Jarrid is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Jarrid will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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