Jarrett
- Pronunciation
- [Ja-rrett]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Spear Strong. Surname. Variant Of Garrett.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Jarrett
Jarrett is a transferred surname that functions as a variant of Garrett, which in turn comes from the medieval English adaptation of Germanic names built on ger ("spear") combined with either hard ("brave" or "strong") or wald ("rule"), giving the traditional gloss of "spear strong" or "spear ruler." As a transferred surname entering the given-name pool, Jarrett carries the solid, no-nonsense character typical of Anglo-American occupational and clan names that migrated from family surname to first name during the twentieth century. The double-r spelling distinguishes it visually from the more common Garrett and aligns it with other surnames-as-given-names that feature doubled medial consonants — a pattern that signals a certain rugged, masculine directness in American naming aesthetics of the late twentieth century.
Jarrett appears in the US Social Security top-1000 from 2000, debuting at its peak rank of #299 — its strongest showing, reached in its first tracked year. The name had a brief and narrowing run: #896 in 2008, #917 in 2009, and a final appearance at #995 in 2012. Over its tracked run, approximately 5,329 babies received the name in top-1000 years, one of the smaller totals in this batch. Recorded variants include Jareth and Jarrett.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Jarrett
US Popularity History (2000–2012)
Annual US births named Jarrett by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 1,005 boys named Jarrett (boy rank #299 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2012, ranked #995 for boys (200 US births). That's 696 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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