girls:
5 births since 1982
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
11.8k births since 1966
#1062 (77th percentile)
overall:
11.8k births since 1966
#2427 (69th percentile)
The name Jarod is the #2,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,779 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 68.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,062 (76.8% percentile) for all time with 11,774 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1982.
Jarod first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1982 for girls).
The name Jarod has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jarod reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 66.2% percentile (ranked #269) with 515 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 515 births per million (ranked 66.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jarod ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jarod reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #793) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jarod".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jarod. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.5% confident that Jarod is pronounced as JEH-ruhd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-ruhd, at 28.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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