Jerrett
Masculine · “Spear rule”
Jerrett, Jarrett and Garrett are one name with three faces, and none of them is Jeremiah. The confusion is old and understandable, because the short forms overlap completely, but the full names behind them are separate and the record can be untangled.
How old is the name Jerrett?
Jerrett first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Jerrett alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,200 people named Jerrett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jerrett most popular?
Jerrett peaked in 1980, reaching #1410 nationally. See the whole 1980 chart.
Where it comes from
From Gerard to Jerrett
The story of Jerrett
One Gerard did as much as any single person to move knowledge into medieval Europe. Gerard of Cremona went to Toledo in the twelfth century because he wanted to read a work of Ptolemy that existed only in Arabic, learned the language, and stayed for the rest of his life; by the time he died he had translated something like eighty books out of Arabic into Latin, including Euclid, Galen, Aristotle, al-Khwarizmi and the medical encyclopedia of Ibn Sina, which then taught European doctors for four hundred years. A good deal of what the West knows about Greek science came through Arabic and through him. The name he carried was Germanic, ordinary in his century, and is the one at the bottom of this spelling.
Meaningscholars disagree
Spear rule, or spear strength
Garrett descends from Gerald or Gerard, two Germanic names sharing a first element meaning a spear and differing in the second, which is either rule or hardness. English and Irish speakers merged them centuries ago and the surname carries both. Jeremiah is Hebrew, unrelated, and reached the same short forms by accident of sound.
How the name formed
- Gerard
- Garrett
- Jarrett
- Jerrett
Related forms: Gerard · Gherardo · Gearoid
Pronouncing Jerrett
JAIR-it
Two syllables with the stress at the front in American use. The doubled r and the doubled t both keep the vowels short, which is the one job doubled consonants reliably do in English.
Nicknames for Jerrett
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
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 198045 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1410reached in 1980
- Change vs 2021
- 0.0%6 in 2024, 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.
Jerrett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gerard in French — related form
- Gherardo in Italian — related form
- Gearoid in Irish — related form
Jerretts among us
people named Jerrett 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
Jerrett 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.
- Jerry and Rett are two short forms belonging to different generations.
- The name has a documented Germanic line running back a thousand years.
- Garrett and Jarrett are both commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The J spelling suggests a link to Jeremiah that is not there.
- Four spellings of this sound circulate together, so it will need spelling out for life.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jerretts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Jerrett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jerrett in 2025?
- Jerrett is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Jerrett with classmates?
- Jerrett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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