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Jaritza vs Jarrod

American parents have registered 25,351 Jarrods since 1880, against 792 Jaritzas. Jarrod is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaritza against Jarrod, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaritza Jarrod

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

Jarrod has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Jaritza had 8 and Jarrod had 19.

Side by side

  Jaritza Jarrod
Total US births 79225,351
Most in one year 621,150
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 78024,000
Median age today 2340
Peak year 19931980
Best rank 2,152nd girls213th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,803rd
First recorded 19791965
Girls / boys 792 / 065 / 25,286

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 Jarrods alive today are over 40; half the Jaritzas are over 23. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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