How rare is the name Jarod?

10,754 people in the United States have the first name Jarod, about 1 in 28,086. It ranks #2,344 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JAROD

#2,344

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,754
About
1 in 28,086
This common or more
79.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,754 people named Jarod, 75.2% reported their origin as White, 9.9% as Black and 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jarod peaked in 1998, when 1,045 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19662025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
1,045
In 2025*
8 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 11,804 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jarod by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,100. The largest share of babies named Jarod, 44.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#6,66495
1970s#1,4961,583
1980s#1,1113,120
1990s#1,1004,004
2000s#1,7262,533
2010s#6,791380
2020s#12,57889
Generation X 1965–8017.4%
Millennials 1981–9635.5%
Generation Z 1997–1244.6%
2013 and later2.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jarod is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jarod has been most common in Nebraska (2.3×), Kansas (2.2×), and Oklahoma (2.1×), and least common in Connecticut (0.41×).

9,299 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Jarod

1 other first name also has 10,754 people.

#2,344 Gena · 10,754

Either side of Jarod

#2,343 Camilo · 10,757#2,344 Gena · 10,754#2,346 Fanny · 10,752#2,347 Yuri · 10,734

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jarod, most common first.

#308 Jared · 180,306#1,544 Jarrod · 21,186#7,829 Jarad · 1,902#10,741 Jarid · 1,225#16,132 Jaryd · 704

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