Jerard
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jerard has been given to 1,039 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Jerard, 2019
1 in 386,000
Jerard 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jerard?
Jerard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 386,000
- 9 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 199,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 267,420 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jerard sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 267,420 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jerards were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerard was born before 1983 — so the typical Jerard is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 980
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (280).
Is Jerard 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (37)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jerard
Jerard is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 41.5% against Jerard's 0.07%.
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 Jerard is used
Across 1910–2025, Jerard was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 811,861 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
- 2Louisiana1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Jerard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jerard around the world
Where Jerard 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.
- Ireland1977–1977#333in 1977
- South Australia1989–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jerard by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jerard
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jerard
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.