boys:
2.1k births since 1969
#2717 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1969
#5640 (27th percentile)
The name Jarad is the #5,640 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,147 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 27.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,717 (40.7% percentile) for all time with 2,147 births since 1969.
Jarad first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for boys in 1969). Birth data for Jarad is available in 47 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Jarad reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #577) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 62 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jarad ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 12.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jarad".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Jarad. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Jarad is pronounced as JEH-ruhd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jer-AD, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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