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Jarred vs Jarrel

American parents have registered 13,263 Jarreds since 1880, against 1,019 Jarrels. Jarred is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jarred against Jarrel, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jarred Jarrel

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 86 years in which either name was published, Jarred for 60 years and Jarrel for 26 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jarred Jarrel
Total US births 13,2631,019
Most in one year 60764
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 13,000870
Median age today 3335
Peak year 19891987
Best rank 369th boys1,202nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 19661919
Girls / boys 8 / 13,2550 / 1,019

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 Jarrels alive today are over 35; half the Jarreds are over 33. That is 2 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: Jarred and Jarrel.