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Jarmaine vs Jarred

American parents have registered 13,263 Jarreds since 1880, against 381 Jarmaines. Jarred is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jarmaine against Jarred, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jarmaine Jarred

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jarred has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Jarmaine had 23 and Jarred had 78.

Side by side

  Jarmaine Jarred
Total US births 38113,263
Most in one year 24607
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 36013,000
Median age today 4333
Peak year 19761989
Best rank 1,999th boys369th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,803rd
First recorded 19711966
Girls / boys 0 / 3818 / 13,255

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jarmaines alive today are over 43; half the Jarreds are over 33. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jarmaine and Jarred.