Jarrod
Masculine · “descent”
Jarrod is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 25,286 boys against 65 girls since 1880.
Jarrod is a twentieth-century respelling with two possible parents: the Hebrew Jared, a name from the genealogies of Genesis, and Garrett, which is Germanic and means something entirely different.
How old is the name Jarrod?
Jarrod first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Jarrod alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 24,000 people named Jarrod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jarrod most popular?
Jarrod peaked in 1980, reaching #213 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 6,590 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yered to Jarrod
The story of Jarrod
Jared is one of the antediluvian patriarchs listed in Genesis, and Protestant families used it lightly from the Reformation. It rose sharply in twentieth-century America, and the respellings followed the pattern of the period: Jarrod, Jarred, Jarod, Jerrod. This spelling peaked in the mid-1970s, when the doubled consonant was fashionable across a whole set of names.
Meaningscholars disagree
descent
Read as a spelling of Jared, the meaning is the Hebrew Yered, 'descent' or 'he descends', from the genealogy in Genesis. Read as a spelling of Garrett, it is the Germanic ger, 'spear', and hard, 'brave' — a quite different name. The two are unrelated and the spelling does not choose.
How the name formed
- Yered
- Jared
- Jarrod
Related forms: Yered · Jared · Jarrett
Pronouncing Jarrod
JA-rud
Two syllables, stress on the first. Jarrod, Jarred and Jared are all said the same way in most American accents.
Nicknames for Jarrod
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
- 1965
- Most boys named
- 19801,145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #213reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- −42.9%12 in 2025, from 21
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.
Jarrod in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yered in Hebrew — related form
- Jared in English — spelling variant
- Jarrett in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Jarrods among us
people named Jarrod are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Jarrod
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jarrod
- #6803
- Jarrod on the 2025 chart
- #908
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jarrod went to 12 boys in 2025, but Jarod 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 — 5,895 places above the chart.
- Jarrod12
- Jarod8
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 142,340 for Jarrod 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 Conrad test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jarrod's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Conrad climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Conrad's path sketches the road Jarrod is walking now.
Jarrod 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
Jarrod beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jarrod 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 an unrelated Hebrew and Germanic name.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s and 1980s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jarrods are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 24,000 people named Jarrod are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jarrod?
- Jarrod is the most-used spelling in US records — 12 of the 20 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jarod.
- How popular is the name Jarrod in 2025?
- Jarrod ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jarrod?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Jarrod — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jarrod with classmates?
- Jarrod will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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