How rare is the name Jarrod?

21,186 people in the United States have the first name Jarrod, about 1 in 14,256. It ranks #1,544 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JARROD

#1,544

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
21,186
About
1 in 14,256
This common or more
75.5%
Who bears it

Of the 21,186 people named Jarrod, 77.1% reported their origin as White, 11.9% as Black and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jarrod peaked in 1980, when 1,150 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19652025
Peak year
1980
Births that year
1,150
In 2025*
12 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 25,351 babies have been given the name since 1965. 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.

Jarrod by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #526. The largest share of babies named Jarrod, 47%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#1,6551,174
1970s#6366,738
1980s#5269,229
1990s#8775,511
2000s#2,1231,900
2010s#4,715648
2020s#8,891151
Generation X 1965–8035.7%
Millennials 1981–9647%
Generation Z 1997–1215.2%
2013 and later2.1%

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 Jarrod is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jarrod has been most common in Oklahoma (2×), Kentucky (2×), and Kansas (1.8×), and least common in Utah (0.38×).

23,038 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.

Either side of Jarrod

#1,542 Mickey · 21,288#1,543 Sondra · 21,227#1,545 Rocky · 21,181#1,546 Jeanine · 21,164

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,288 Jarred · 11,306#2,344 Jarod · 10,754#9,217 Jarrad · 1,524#12,807 Jarrid · 960#17,567 Jarryd · 625

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