Gerome
#11,122 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gerome has been given to 1,313 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #11,122 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Gerome, 2025
1 in 553,000
Gerome over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gerome?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,122
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gerome sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerome. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Geromes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerome was born before 1967 — so the typical Gerome is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 18.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,071
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (248).
Is Gerome rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 18.8%
- Peak was 1962 (32)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gerome
Gerome is not the most common spelling — Jerome is, with 87.8% against Gerome's 0.71%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Gerome is used
Across 1910–2025, Gerome was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 721,372 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Mississippi1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gerome has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gerome around the world
Where Gerome ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2008#4,432in 2008
- France1900–2015#6,654in 2015
- South Australia1968–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gerome by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gerome
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gerome
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.