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Jared vs Jarin

American parents have registered 207,119 Jareds since 1880, against 1,054 Jarins. Jared is still ahead, with 804 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jared against Jarin, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jared Jarin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jared has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jared had 1,448 and Jarin had 26.

Side by side

  Jared Jarin
Total US births 207,1191,054
Most in one year 7,47868
Babies in 2025 8046
Estimated living today 197,0001,000
Median age today 3325
Peak year 19982001
Best rank 51st boys1,841st boys
Rank in 2025 396th10,695th
First recorded 18811973
Girls / boys 768 / 206,35133 / 1,021

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jareds alive today are over 33; half the Jarins are over 25. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jared Jarin
England and Wales 2,69010

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jared and Jarin.