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Jarrod vs Jarron

American parents have registered 25,351 Jarrods since 1880, against 1,517 Jarrons. Jarrod is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarrod 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

Jarrod has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Jarrod had 12 and Jarron had 9.

Side by side

  Jarrod Jarron
Total US births 25,3511,517
Most in one year 1,15070
Babies in 2025 129
Estimated living today 24,0001,500
Median age today 4028
Peak year 19802001
Best rank 213th boys1,659th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rd8,243rd
First recorded 19651974
Girls / boys 65 / 25,2860 / 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 Jarrods alive today are over 40; half the Jarrons are over 28. That is 12 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 Jarrod Jarron
England and Wales 3379

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: Jarrod and Jarron.