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Jaron vs Jarred

American parents have registered 13,263 Jarreds since 1880, against 11,276 Jarons. But in 2025 it was Jaron that was commoner, 55 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaron 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

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Jarred for 35 years and Jaron for 26 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaron Jarred
Total US births 11,27613,263
Most in one year 557607
Babies in 2025 5512
Estimated living today 11,00013,000
Median age today 2733
Peak year 20011989
Best rank 440th boys369th boys
Rank in 2025 2,451st6,803rd
First recorded 19641966
Girls / boys 48 / 11,2288 / 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 Jarreds alive today are over 33; half the Jarons are over 27. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jaron Jarred
England and Wales 94310

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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