Meaning not yet researched.
Jareth: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,447 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,447 in 1987; #1,879 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jareth in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,879 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,447.
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Jareth: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,447 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 90 (2024).
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Jareth, making it the 1,879th most common boys’ name of the year, down 67 places from #1,812 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 90 boys named Jareth in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,447, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 90, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,445 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jareth in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 10 babies. In all, 2,113 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 643 babies named Jareth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 651 US boys were named Jareth; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jareth ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #817 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jarrett (22,970 babies since 1880), Jarett (3,566 babies since 1880), Jarret (3,431 babies since 1880) and Jaret (2,991 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jareth in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #817 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #867 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #901 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,157 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,716 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,080 | #1,953 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 84 | #1,879 |
| 2024 | — | — | 90 | #1,812 |
| 2023 | — | — | 89 | #1,808 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,422 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,269 | 47 | #2,708 |
| 2020 | — | — | 53 | #2,450 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,377 |
| 2018 | — | — | 56 | #2,367 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,363 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,192 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,445 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,970 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,378 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,309 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,420 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,446 |
| 2009 | — | — | 75 | #1,916 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,737 | 84 | #1,780 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,181 | 76 | #1,882 |
| 2006 | — | — | 74 | #1,848 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,253 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,918 | 58 | #2,063 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,816 | 52 | #2,141 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,879 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,443 | 46 | #2,229 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,767 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,972 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,251 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,519 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,636 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,717 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,649 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,743 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,493 |
| 1991 | — | — | 40 | #1,936 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,673 |
| 1989 | — | — | 38 | #1,934 |
| 1988 | — | — | 51 | #1,491 |
| 1987 | — | — | 50 | #1,447 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,272 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).