Given name & surname
Jarret
“one who is strong with the spear”
Jarret is a variant of Jarrett. One English interpretation is “one who is strong with the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jarret is a variant of Jarrett. One English interpretation is “one who is strong with the spear.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Jarret is a variant of Jarrett. An origin associated with Jarrett is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jarret through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,431
- 3,431 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 136 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −77%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 136 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,098 as a first name in 2020; 312 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jarret
- Jarret StollCanadian ice hockey playerborn 1982
- Jarret EatonAmerican hurdlerborn 1989
- Bim ShermanJamaican singer1950–2000
- Jarret JohnsonAmerican football playerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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