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Jerod

#12,857 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerod has been given to 6,014 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #12,857 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 295 recorded.

Babies named Jerod, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jerod over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerod: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerod means

Jerod is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerod

Wikidata records Jerod as a given name. The entity identifier is Q25114143, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,014 boys were recorded with the name Jerod between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 295 in 1980; its best national rank was #493 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,952 in 2020 to #12,857 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,739 in 2015 to #12,857 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jerod?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,857
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerod sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerod. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerod was born before 1984 — so the typical Jerod is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,996
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (2,270).

Is Jerod 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
−1,293
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,118
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.7%
Peak was 1980 (295)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#493
1980

Spellings of Jerod

Jerod is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 44.6% against Jerod's 0.44%.

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 Jerod is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerod was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 41,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 14,286
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  4. 4Colorado1 in 20,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 20,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 25,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 25,000

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. Jerod has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerod around the world

Where Jerod 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.

  • Canada
    1994–2000
    #1,770
    in 2000

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jerod

People whose public names include Jerod, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jerod by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,857
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 95
Best rank ever
#493
1980
Peak year
1980
295 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,014
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jerod

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jerod

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jerod, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AntioneJeremeyJeramyCedrickJeremieJermeyDerikKristofferToryJustonCortneyArron

Sibling names for Jerod

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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