How rare is the name Jarrett?

19,020 people in the United States have the first name Jarrett, about 1 in 15,880. It ranks #1,652 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JARRETT

#1,652

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
19,020
About
1 in 15,880
This common or more
76.2%
Who bears it

Of the 19,020 people named Jarrett, 72.9% reported their origin as White, 15% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. 99.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jarrett peaked in 1998, when 1,020 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
1,020
In 2025*
57 ▼94%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 22,970 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Jarrett by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #744. The largest share of babies named Jarrett, 37.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#2,56212
1890s#3,7106
1910s#5,16965
1920s#4,723123
1930s#4,106126
1940s#3,301210
1950s#3,689227
1960s#2,308617
1970s#1,1382,541
1980s#8174,955
1990s#7446,908
2000s#1,0655,139
2010s#2,5921,573
2020s#4,189468
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.7%
Silent Generation 1928–451.1%
Baby boom 1946–642%
Generation X 1965–8014.9%
Millennials 1981–9637.4%
Generation Z 1997–1237.3%
2013 and later6.4%

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 Jarrett is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jarrett has been most common in Hawaii (2.5×), Georgia (1.8×), and Florida (1.8×), and least common in Connecticut (0.35×).

19,187 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Jarrett ranks #1,663 of 156,621, with 21,099 people. See Jarrett as a last name

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