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Jarrod

The boy's name Jarrod has been in the national records since 1965, with 25,351 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 24,000 Jarrods are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Jarrod boys named Jarrod

By the numbers

Total US births
25,351
Estimated living today
24,000
Median age today
40
Peak year
1980
Best rank
213th
Rank in 2025
6,803rd
First recorded
1965
Girls / boys
65 / 25,286

How old the living Jarrods are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 25,351 babies given the name since 1965, about 24,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 970 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Variant of Jared.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Jarrods

People named Jarrod with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jarrod is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jarrod is most concentrated in Oklahoma (2.0×), Kentucky (2.0×), Kansas (1.8×), Florida (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1980

The most popular boys’ names the year Jarrod peaked:

All the names of 1980

Jarrod elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
New Zealand boys Jarrod 773 68th
England and Wales boys Jarrod 337 490th
France boys Jarrod 90 2,977th
Scotland boys Jarrod 3 351st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.