Name Awesome

Jarret

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jarret has been given to 3,431 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Jarret, 2023

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jarret: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jarret means

Jarret is a given name.

The naming story behind Jarret

Wikidata records Jarret as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98669070, 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, 3,431 boys were recorded with the name Jarret between 1946 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 136 in 1990; its best national rank was #879 in 1990.

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 Jarret?

Jarret had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jarret 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jarret. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarrets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jarret was born before 1991 — so the typical Jarret is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,426
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (1,076).

Is Jarret 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (136)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#879
1990

Spellings of Jarret

Jarret is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 25.1% against Jarret's 0.42%.

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 Jarret is used

Across 1910–2025, Jarret was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 96,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Jarret has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jarret around the world

Where Jarret 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
    #2,357
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1972–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Jarret

People whose public names include Jarret, 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.

Jarret in other languages

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

Jarrit

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

Jarret by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#879
1990
Peak year
1990
136 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,431
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jarret

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

JaretJarettJarellJarrenJarielJarethJariusJarronJarrellJarenJaradJarredJarekJarvisJaromJarelJarradJaronJarinJarodJarrodBarretJarridJariah

Names with a curve like Jarret

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

NicholausDontaJustenSharifBrannonDerrekDejuanJeronJameelDemetrisTerellJory

Sibling names for Jarret

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Jarret

Top names of 1990, Jarret's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1990Boys' names starting with J