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Jarrell vs Jarrod

American parents have registered 25,351 Jarrods since 1880, against 4,245 Jarrells. But in 2025 it was Jarrell that was commoner, 12 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarrell Jarrod

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 112 years in which either name was published, Jarrod for 60 years and Jarrell for 52 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jarrell Jarrod
Total US births 4,24525,351
Most in one year 1781,150
Babies in 2025 1212
Estimated living today 3,60024,000
Median age today 3440
Peak year 19871980
Best rank 689th boys213th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd6,803rd
First recorded 19131965
Girls / boys 22 / 4,22365 / 25,286

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 Jarrods alive today are over 40; half the Jarrells are over 34. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jarrell Jarrod
England and Wales 49337

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: Jarrell and Jarrod.