Jaryd
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaryd has been given to 760 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1989, with 55 recorded.
Babies named Jaryd, 2020
1 in 668,000
Jaryd 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jaryd?
Jaryd had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaryd sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaryd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaryds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaryd was born before 1994 — so the typical Jaryd is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 48.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 760
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (366).
Is Jaryd 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 1989 (55)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jaryd
Jaryd is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 58.0% against Jaryd's 0.05%.
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 Jaryd is used
Across 1910–2025, Jaryd was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 805,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
- 8Washington1 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. Jaryd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jaryd around the world
Where Jaryd 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 & Wales1996–2011#4,647in 2011
- Canada1992–2001#1,486in 2001
- South Australia1985–2009#708in 2009
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.
Jaryd by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jaryd
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jaryd
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.