Given name & surname
Jareb
“he will struggle”
Jareb is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “he will struggle.”
Original Hebrewירב
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “he will struggle.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From the Hebrew verb rib (ריב), “to contend.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Jareb appears in Hosea 5:13.
From biblical name research
Jareb through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 72 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 141 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jareb’s family of names
See also 8
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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