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Jarrod vs Jarvie

American parents have registered 25,351 Jarrods since 1880, against 7 Jarvies. Jarrod is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jarrod against Jarvie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jarrod Jarvie

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 62 years in which either name was published, Jarrod for 61 years and Jarvie for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jarrod Jarvie
Total US births 25,3517
Most in one year 1,1507
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 24,0000
Median age today 4096
Peak year 19801929
Best rank 213th boys3,247th boys
Rank in 2025 6,803rdunranked
First recorded 19651929
Girls / boys 65 / 25,2860 / 7

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 Jarvies alive today are over 96; half the Jarrods are over 40. That is 56 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: Jarrod and Jarvie.