In 2025, 18 US boys were named Jarius, making it the 5,296th most common boys’ name of the year, up 239 places from #5,535 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 17 boys named Jarius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,391, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 2000. For comparison, it was #4,616 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jarius in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 7 babies. In all, 1,814 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 639 babies named Jarius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US boys were named Jarius; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jairus (2,741 babies since 1880).