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Jarred vs Jarrett

American parents have registered 22,970 Jarretts since 1880, against 13,263 Jarreds. Jarrett is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarred 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

Of the 116 years in which either name was published, Jarrett for 114 years and Jarred for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jarred Jarrett
Total US births 13,26322,970
Most in one year 6071,020
Babies in 2025 1257
Estimated living today 13,00022,000
Median age today 3330
Peak year 19891998
Best rank 369th boys282nd boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd2,390th
First recorded 19661880
Girls / boys 8 / 13,25578 / 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 Jarreds alive today are over 33; half the Jarretts are over 30. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jarred Jarrett
England and Wales 31020

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: Jarred and Jarrett.