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Jarrett vs Jaryn

American parents have registered 22,970 Jarretts since 1880, against 918 Jaryns. Jarrett is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarrett 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

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 2011, when Jarrett had 184 and Jaryn had 39.

Side by side

  Jarrett Jaryn
Total US births 22,970918
Most in one year 1,02051
Babies in 2025 575
Estimated living today 22,000900
Median age today 3022
Peak year 19982004
Best rank 282nd boys2,887th boys
Rank in 2025 2,390th12,008th
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 78 / 22,892335 / 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 Jarretts alive today are over 30; half the Jaryns are over 22. That is 8 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: Jarrett and Jaryn.