Gerome
Gerome was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,122 among boys’ names; 1,313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gerome by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gerome?
#11,122 among boys’ names, 2025
Gerome entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,122 in 2025.
32 babies in 1962, the peak
Gerome peaked in 1962, when 32 boys were given it, #1,393 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,122 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,081 | 4.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,068 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,069 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,268 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,178 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,417 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,099 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,536 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,743 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #11,471 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,213 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,469 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,682 | 6.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,850 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,933 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,677 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,260 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,893 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,124 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,403 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,074 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,493 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,015 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,269 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,398 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,534 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,155 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,466 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,441 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,365 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,153 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,766 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,066 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,839 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,032 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,075 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,804 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,948 | 14.6 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,713 | 17.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,037 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,943 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,723 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,884 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,751 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,421 | 16.6 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,596 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,021 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 32 | #1,391 | 16.1 |
| 1963 | 24 | #1,636 | 11.8 |
| 1962 | 32 | #1,393 | 15.5 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,709 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,563 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,827 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 26 | #1,540 | 12.3 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,856 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 28 | #1,491 | 13.2 |
| 1955 | 24 | #1,581 | 11.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,644 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,439 | 14.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,965 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,933 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,770 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,724 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,625 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,290 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,779 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,125 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,247 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,015 | 9.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,251 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,934 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,947 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,303 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,016 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,744 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,859 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,881 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,716 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,543 | 9.6 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,494 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,918 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,589 | 6.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,054 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,974 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,589 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,617 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,187 | 14.3 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,679 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gerome a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gerome has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gerome: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gerome, and how old are they?
An estimated 969 Americans named Gerome and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 37 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,087 people named Gerome (9 women and girls, 1,078 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,027 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,653 babies since 1880, Gerome is the most given (49% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gerome
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gerome and names like it
- Compare Gerome and GeremyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGerome peaked in 1962.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gerome since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Gerome.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Gerome alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.