Meaning not yet researched.
Jarrod: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #213 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #213 in 1980; #6,972 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jarrod in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,972 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #213.
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Jarrod: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #213 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 1,145 (1980).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Jarrod, making it the 6,972nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,198 places from #4,774 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 21 boys named Jarrod in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #213, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,145. For comparison, it was #1,968 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jarrod in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 21 babies. In all, 25,351 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 9,229 babies named Jarrod.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US boys were named Jarrod; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jared (207,119 babies since 1880), Jarred (13,263 babies since 1880), Jarod (11,804 babies since 1880) and Jarad (2,178 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 Jarrod in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,972 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,774 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,146 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,373 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,858 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,165 |
| 2019 | — | — | 46 | #2,744 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,863 |
| 2017 | — | — | 49 | #2,580 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,807 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,968 |
| 2014 | — | — | 52 | #2,441 |
| 2013 | — | — | 69 | #1,998 |
| 2012 | — | — | 94 | #1,643 |
| 2011 | — | — | 80 | #1,801 |
| 2010 | — | — | 99 | #1,593 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,678 |
| 2008 | — | — | 86 | #1,754 |
| 2007 | — | — | 99 | #1,586 |
| 2006 | — | — | 122 | #1,342 |
| 2005 | — | — | 135 | #1,186 |
| 2004 | — | — | 157 | #1,041 |
| 2003 | — | — | 208 | #838 |
| 2002 | — | — | 240 | #733 |
| 2001 | — | — | 349 | #581 |
| 2000 | — | — | 410 | #534 |
| 1999 | — | — | 528 | #436 |
| 1998 | — | — | 618 | #396 |
| 1997 | — | — | 537 | #425 |
| 1996 | — | — | 371 | #531 |
| 1995 | — | — | 400 | #510 |
| 1994 | — | — | 454 | #474 |
| 1993 | — | — | 527 | #426 |
| 1992 | — | — | 595 | #386 |
| 1991 | — | — | 689 | #353 |
| 1990 | — | — | 792 | #318 |
| 1989 | — | — | 833 | #293 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,898 | 832 | #279 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,385 | 828 | #263 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,913 | 839 | #264 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,852 | 900 | #250 |
| 1984 | — | — | 794 | #264 |
| 1983 | — | — | 960 | #234 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,547 | 1,044 | #224 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,544 | 1,006 | #233 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,001 | 1,145 | #213 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,382 | 1,046 | #219 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,373 | 913 | #230 |
| 1977 | — | — | 846 | #244 |
| 1976 | — | — | 724 | #267 |
| 1975 | — | — | 669 | #288 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,281 | 631 | #295 |
| 1973 | — | — | 470 | #355 |
| 1972 | — | — | 520 | #339 |
| 1971 | — | — | 508 | #356 |
| 1970 | — | — | 394 | #410 |
| 1969 | — | — | 318 | #443 |
| 1968 | — | — | 353 | #410 |
| 1967 | — | — | 263 | #469 |
| 1966 | — | — | 219 | #513 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,750 |
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).