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Jeromy

#11,262 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jeromy has been given to 4,798 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #11,262 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 313 recorded.

Babies named Jeromy, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeromy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeromy means

Jeromy is a given name.

The naming story behind Jeromy

Wikidata records Jeromy as a given name. The entity identifier is Q114342542, 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, 4,798 boys were recorded with the name Jeromy between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 313 in 1976; its best national rank was #442 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,018 in 2020 to #11,262 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,158 in 2015 to #11,262 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 Jeromy?

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
#11,262
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeromy 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeromy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeromys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeromy was born before 1980 — so the typical Jeromy is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,798
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (2,109).

Is Jeromy 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,244
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,104
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1976 (313)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#442
1976

Spellings of Jeromy

Jeromy is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 41.9% against Jeromy's 0.33%.

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 Jeromy is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeromy was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 56,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Oregon1 in 25,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Iowa1 in 33,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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

Jeromy around the world

Where Jeromy 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
    1991–2000
    #1,433
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1967–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jeromy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,262
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,244
Best rank ever
#442
1976
Peak year
1976
313 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,798
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jeromy

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

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Names with a curve like Jeromy

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

TorreyJenniferJeramieJeremieKristofferJasenTremayneGermaineChadrickAntioneChaddChadwick

Sibling names for Jeromy

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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