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Jarod vs Jarvie

American parents have registered 11,804 Jarods since 1880, against 7 Jarvies. Jarod is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarod Jarvie

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

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Jarod for 60 years and Jarvie for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jarod Jarvie
Total US births 11,8047
Most in one year 1,0457
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 11,0000
Median age today 2996
Peak year 19981929
Best rank 275th boys3,247th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910thunranked
First recorded 19661929
Girls / boys 5 / 11,7990 / 7

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 Jarvies alive today are over 96; half the Jarods are over 29. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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