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Jarad

#6,610 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jarad has been given to 2,178 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #6,610 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Jarad, 2025

1 in 255,000

Jarad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarad: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarad means

Jarad is a given name.

The naming story behind Jarad

Wikidata records Jarad as a given name. The entity identifier is Q77872540, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,178 boys were recorded with the name Jarad between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 1983; its best national rank was #815 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,785 in 2020 to #6,610 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,990 in 2015 to #6,610 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jarad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,610
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jarad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jarad was born before 1987 — so the typical Jarad is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,178
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (959).

Is Jarad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,297
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+175
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,380
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.3%
Peak was 1983 (115)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#815
1983

Spellings of Jarad

Jarad is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 37.6% against Jarad's 0.40%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jarad is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 213,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Arizona1 in —
  8. 8Colorado1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jarad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jarad around the world

Where Jarad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #1,953
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1971–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jarad

People whose public names include Jarad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jarad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,610
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 175
Best rank ever
#815
1983
Peak year
1983
115 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,178
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Jarad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jarad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jarad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jarad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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