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Jerrard

Boys' name

Variant of Gerard

Jerrard has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1985, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Jerrard, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerrard: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gerard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerrard means

Jerrard is a variant of Gerard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jerrard is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒɪ.ˈɹɑɹd/ and /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.əd/ for Jerrard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Jerrard is a variant of Gerard. Gerard has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 253 boys were recorded with the name Jerrard between 1970 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1985; its best national rank was #3,009 in 1985.

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 Jerrard?

Jerrard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerrard 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerrard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerrards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerrard was born before 1985 — so the typical Jerrard is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
253
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Jerrard 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
0%
Peak was 1985 (16)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,009
1985

Spellings of Jerrard

Jerrard is not the most common spelling — Bernard is, with 62.2% against Jerrard's 0.08%.

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.

Jerrard around the world

Where Jerrard 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 & Wales
    2006–2007
    #2,741
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jerrard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,009
1985
Peak year
1985
16 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
253
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerrard

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

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Sibling names for Jerrard

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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