Jarrod
- Pronunciation
- [Ja-rrod]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Spear Strong. Variant And Surname Form Of Garrett From Gerald.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Jarrod
Jarrod is a surname-derived spelling variant of Garrett, which itself descends from the Germanic name Gerald, built from elements meaning "spear" and "rule" — often summarized as "spear-strong." The J-initial form gives this old warrior name a distinctly modern, American flavor, trading medieval gravity for an approachable, contemporary sound that feels rugged yet friendly, traditional yet thoroughly of its time.
The name sits within an unusually rich family of spellings. Recorded variants include Jared, Jarrad, Jarred, and Jerrod, each a slightly different take on the same crisp two-syllable rhythm, which gave parents real room to personalize a popular sound to their own taste. That spread of forms is itself a sign of how fashionable the name's sound was at its height.
Jarrod's window in the US Social Security top-1000 was brief in the years tracked here: it appears from 2000, with its best showing in 2000 at rank #534, and was last recorded in 2003 at #838; it had stood at #581 in 2001 before falling away, accumulating 1,207 boys across that span. The pattern points to a name whose peak American popularity had largely crested by the turn of the millennium, leaving it a warmly nostalgic, of-its-era choice today — distinctive now precisely because its moment has passed.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Jarrod
US Popularity History (2000–2003)
Annual US births named Jarrod by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 410 boys named Jarrod (boy rank #534 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2003, ranked #838 for boys (208 US births). That's 304 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.
Paste the snippet below on any HTML page. Includes a credit link back to 9BabyNames — please keep it intact.
Variant Forms
Looking for names like Jarrod?
A dedicated page with 60+ related names — spelling variants, rhymes, alliterations, same-origin matches, and shared meaning concepts — lives at its own URL so each kind of similarity gets a deeper treatment than fits here.
Compare Jarrod to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Jarrod against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).