girls:
65 births since 1974
#5651 (1st percentile)
boys:
25.3k births since 1965
#724 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.3k births since 1965
#1602 (79th percentile)
The name Jarrod is the #1,602 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,317 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 79.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #724 (84.2% percentile) for all time with 25,252 births since 1965. For girls, it ranks #5,651 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1974.
Jarrod first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for boys and 1974 for girls).
The name Jarrod has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jarrod reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 69.9% percentile (ranked #206) with 617 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 617 births per million (ranked 69.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jarrod ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jarrod reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #788) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jarrod".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jarrod. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Jarrod is pronounced as JA-ruhd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-ruhd, at 29.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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