Jareth
#1,879 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jareth has been given to 2,113 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #1,879 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 90 recorded.
Babies named Jareth, 2025
1 in 39,500
Jareth over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jareth?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 39,500
- 84 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 20,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,879
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 27,357 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jareth sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jareth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jareths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jareth was born before 2009 — so the typical Jareth is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,076
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (611).
Is Jareth 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
- −67
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +570
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +565
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.62×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 93.3%
- Peak was 2024 (90)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.7% average annual change
Spellings of Jareth
Jareth is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 73.1% against Jareth's 0.74%.
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 Jareth is used
Across 2016–2025, Jareth was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 30,960 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
- 2Texas1 in 20,000
- 3California1 in 25,000
- 4New York1 in 25,000
- 5Colorado1 in 50,000
- 6Florida1 in 50,000
- 7Maryland1 in 50,000
- 8Arizona1 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.
Jareth around the world
Where Jareth 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 & Wales1996–2018#3,959in 2018
- Canada1991–1991#1,710in 1991
- South Australia1983–2010#754in 2010
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.
Jareth by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jareth
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jareth
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jareth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jareth
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.