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Jarod

Jarod means "Hebrew, descend" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It had its heyday in the 1990s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 6 of them.

EtymologyVariant of Jared
HebrewHebrew – "descend"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
95
1970s
1,583
1980s
3,122
1990s
4,004
2000s
2,532
2010s
346
Peaked in the 1990s · 11,682 total U.S. births since 1900