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Jarred vs Jarule

American parents have registered 13,263 Jarreds since 1880, against 25 Jarules. Jarred is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jarred Jarule

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 2001, when Jarred had 375 and Jarule had 15.

Side by side

  Jarred Jarule
Total US births 13,26325
Most in one year 60715
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 13,00030
Median age today 3324
Peak year 19892001
Best rank 369th boys4,890th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 19662001
Girls / boys 8 / 13,2550 / 25

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 Jarules are over 24. That is 9 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: Jarred and Jarule.