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Jarell

#4,454 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jarell has been given to 2,993 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,454 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Jarell, 2025

1 in 144,000

Jarell over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarell means

Jarell is a given name.

The naming story behind Jarell

Wikidata records Jarell as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q97180530, 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, 2,993 boys were recorded with the name Jarell between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,025 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,609 in 2020 to #4,454 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,659 in 2015 to #4,454 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 Jarell?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,454
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarell 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jarell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarells were born

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

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,993
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (1,000).

Is Jarell 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
−208
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−845
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,795
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.4%
Peak was 2008 (125)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,025
1985

Spellings of Jarell

Jarell is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 37.4% against Jarell's 0.54%.

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 Jarell is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarell was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 101,827 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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. Jarell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jarell around the world

Where Jarell 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
    2001–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #6,470
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,079
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    2003–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jarell

People whose public names include Jarell, 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.

Jarell in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jarell. Linked forms have their own page here.

Jarrell

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jarell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,454
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 845
Best rank ever
#1,025
1985
Peak year
2008
125 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,993
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Jarell

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

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Names with a curve like Jarell

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

DontrellDamarcusDeanthonyJoseluisEvinKalenDemariusRayshawnFavianJarrenJuancarlosBroc

Sibling names for Jarell

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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