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Jarren

#4,777 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jarren has been given to 2,230 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,777 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Jarren, 2025

1 in 158,000

Jarren over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarren: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarren means

Jarren is a given name.

The naming story behind Jarren

Wikidata records Jarren as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q55762233, 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, 2,220 boys were recorded with the name Jarren between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,290 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,121 in 2020 to #4,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,321 in 2015 to #4,777 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Jarren between 1993 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #14,386 in 1993.

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 Jarren?

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
#4,777
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarren 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 Jarren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarrens were born

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

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,220
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (780).

Is Jarren 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
+537
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+344
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,456
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.6%
Peak was 2001 (102)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,290
2001

Spellings of Jarren

Jarren is not the most common spelling — Jayden is, with 19.4% against Jarren's 0.17%.

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 Jarren is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarren was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 171,209 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Jarren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jarren around the world

Where Jarren 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
    1996–1996
    #2,020
    in 1996
  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,605
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1984–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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 Jarren

People whose public names include Jarren, 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.

Jarren in other languages

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

Jarron

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

Jarren by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 344
Best rank ever
#1,290
2001
Peak year
2001
102 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,220
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,386
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jarren

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

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Names with a curve like Jarren

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

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Sibling names for Jarren

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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