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Jarod

#9,247 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Jared

Jarod has been given to 11,804 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #9,247 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 1,045 recorded.

Babies named Jarod, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jarod over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarod: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jared

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarod means

Jarod is a variant of Jared.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jarod → Jared. The family’s meaning is “descent”, recorded in the naming reference for Jared.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jared.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,799 boys were recorded with the name Jarod between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,045 in 1998; its best national rank was #275 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,757 in 2020 to #9,247 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,996 in 2015 to #9,247 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jarod between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #11,155 in 1982.

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 Jarod?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,247
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarod 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jarod. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jarod was born before 1995 — so the typical Jarod is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,799
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1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (4,004).

Is Jarod 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
−3,715
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,490
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,251
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
0.77%
Peak was 1998 (1,045)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#275
1998

Spellings of Jarod

Jarod is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 27.5% against Jarod's 0.31%.

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 Jarod is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarod was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 18,298 across all states with data. It was least common in North Dakota (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 8,333
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 8,333
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  4. 4Indiana1 in 10,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 11,111
  6. 6Arizona1 in 12,500
  7. 7Florida1 in 12,500
  8. 8Ohio1 in 12,500

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

Jarod around the world

Where Jarod 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
    1997–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Scotland
    1998–1998
    #422
    in 1998
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #369
    in 1998
  • France
    1997–2025
    #759
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1970–2006
    #419
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Jarod

People whose public names include Jarod, 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.

Jarod in other languages

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

Jared

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

Jarod by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,247
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,490
Best rank ever
#275
1998
Peak year
1998
1,045 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,799
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,155
1982
Peak year
1982
5 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jarod

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

JarrodJaronJarenJarredJarvisJaretJaradJerodJarettJarekJarellJarrettJerrodJaromJarelJarrenJarielJarinJarethJarrellJariusJarronJaredJaryn

Names with a curve like Jarod

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

JarrettNathanialGarettDonteJarettGarretRasheedNicklausRigobertoBrandanJarretKorey

Sibling names for Jarod

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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