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Jarius vs Jarrett

American parents have registered 22,970 Jarretts since 1880, against 1,814 Jariuses. Jarrett is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarius Jarrett

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

Jarrett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jarius had 18 and Jarrett had 57.

Side by side

  Jarius Jarrett
Total US births 1,81422,970
Most in one year 891,020
Babies in 2025 1857
Estimated living today 1,80022,000
Median age today 2430
Peak year 20001998
Best rank 1,401st boys282nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th2,390th
First recorded 19721880
Girls / boys 0 / 1,81478 / 22,892

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 Jarretts alive today are over 30; half the Jariuses are over 24. That is 6 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: Jarius and Jarrett.