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Jerrold

Boys' name

Variant of Gerald

Jerrold has been given to 8,467 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1954, with 343 recorded.

Babies named Jerrold, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerrold: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gerald

Germanic languages

What Jerrold means

Jerrold is a variant of Gerald.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jerrold is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.əld/ for Jerrold.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jerrold → Gerald. The family’s proposed meaning is “spear + might, power”, recorded in English with the source elements gaiʀ and wald.

Origin, language, and formation

Jerrold is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerald.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,467 boys were recorded with the name Jerrold between 1911 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 343 in 1954; its best national rank was #385 in 1954.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jerrold?

Jerrold had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerrold 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerrold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerrolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerrold was born before 1953 — so the typical Jerrold is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,079
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1950s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (2,261).

Is Jerrold 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 1954 (343)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#385
1954

Spellings of Jerrold

Jerrold is not the most common spelling — Jerald is, with 22.7% against Jerrold's 7.3%.

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 Jerrold is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerrold was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 31,975 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  2. 2Illinois1 in 12,500
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 16,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 20,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8Iowa1 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. Jerrold has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerrold around the world

Where Jerrold 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.

  • France
    1994–1994
    #3,351
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Jerrold

People whose public names include Jerrold, 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.

Jerrold 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
#385
1954
Peak year
1954
343 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
8,467
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerrold

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

JeroldJerrellJerichoJeremieJerrodJermiahJerimiahJeremiasJeromyJeramiahJerrickJermainJerodReynoldJeraldJeremihLeopoldJeronimoJeriahJeremeyJeramieJeredJerronJerel

Names with a curve like Jerrold

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

DannieDonnValFredricKennithDwainGaylonPatriciaGerryGlynnLonDennie

Sibling names for Jerrold

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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