Given name & surname
Jarrell
“one who rules with the spear”
Jarrell is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who rules with the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who rules with the spear.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jarrell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,245
- 4,223 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 178 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,971 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −38%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,971 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 38.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 172 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,849 as a first name in 2020; 12,892 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jarrell’s family of names
Jarrell has a related form in Jerrell. Jarrell has a related form in Jerel. Jarrell has a related form in Jarell.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 21
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jarrell
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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