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Jarrett vs Jarron

American parents have registered 22,970 Jarretts since 1880, against 1,517 Jarrons. Jarrett is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarrett Jarron

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

Jarrett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Jarrett had 233 and Jarron had 41.

Side by side

  Jarrett Jarron
Total US births 22,9701,517
Most in one year 1,02070
Babies in 2025 579
Estimated living today 22,0001,500
Median age today 3028
Peak year 19982001
Best rank 282nd boys1,659th boys
Rank in 2025 2,390th8,243rd
First recorded 18801974
Girls / boys 78 / 22,8920 / 1,517

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 Jarretts alive today are over 30; half the Jarrons are over 28. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Jarrett Jarron
England and Wales 209

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: Jarrett and Jarron.