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Jarred vs Jaryn

American parents have registered 13,263 Jarreds since 1880, against 918 Jaryns. Jarred is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarred Jaryn

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

Jarred has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Jarred had 49 and Jaryn had 39.

Side by side

  Jarred Jaryn
Total US births 13,263918
Most in one year 60751
Babies in 2025 125
Estimated living today 13,000900
Median age today 3322
Peak year 19892004
Best rank 369th boys2,887th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd12,008th
First recorded 19661979
Girls / boys 8 / 13,255335 / 583

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 Jaryns are over 22. That is 11 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: Jarred and Jaryn.