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Jarek

#4,776 in 2025Boys' name

Furious, through Jarosław

Jarek has been given to 1,627 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,776 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Jarek, 2025

1 in 158,000

Jarek over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarek: meaning, origin, and history

Furious, through Jarosław

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarek means

Jarek belongs to the name family reached through Jarek → Jarosław → *Jaroslavъ. Its meaning is “furious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jarek is used in Czech and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jára, Jaroslav, Jaromír, Jarosław and *Jaroslavъ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Jarek is pronounced [ˈjarɛk].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,627 boys were recorded with the name Jarek between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 74 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,539 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,342 in 2020 to #4,776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,124 in 2015 to #4,776 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jarek?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,776
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarek 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jarek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jareks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jarek was born before 2002 — so the typical Jarek is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,627
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Choose a decade

2000s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Jarek 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
−153
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,566
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−652
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.4%
Peak was 2000 (74)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,539
1997

Spellings of Jarek

Jarek is not the most common spelling — James is, with 62.4% against Jarek's 0.02%.

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 Jarek is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarek was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 294,089 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Minnesota1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 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. Jarek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jarek around the world

Where Jarek 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #2,611
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1989–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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.

Jarek by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,566
Best rank ever
#1,539
1997
Peak year
2000
74 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,627
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Jarek

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

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Sibling names for Jarek

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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