Jareth
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 55 babies a year in the US.
Jareth by the numbers
Jareth was given to 55 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 84 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Jareth
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jareth. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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