The history of your name

The JARRETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,449 1610 0.008 76
United States (1880 census) 2,977 2056 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +17472 +446 +0.002 +16
Other Countries
Australia 1,757 927 0.011 107
United Kingdom 4,573 1365 0.01 100
Top States for JARRETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,449 820 0.018 180
Georgia 1,285 860 0.016 157
Florida 1,262 1649 0.008 79
Tennessee 1,249 723 0.022 220
California 1,145 2784 0.003 34
Top States for JARRETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 608 433 0.034 336
Tennessee 1,249 723 0.022 220
Arkansas 511 695 0.019 191
North Carolina 1,449 820 0.018 180
Georgia 1,285 860 0.016 157

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JARRETT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JARRETT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JARRETT in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JARRETT by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JARRETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JARRETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JARRETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JARRETT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 389 1.9
White (Hispanic) 276 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 117 0.57
Asian/Pacific 78 0.38
White (Caucasian) 14,592 71.36
Black/African American 4,998 24.44

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JARRETT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JARRETT in historical publications

JARRATT. JARRETT. JARRITT.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JARRETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JARRETT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JARRETT

The following words are slight variants of JARRETT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.