Jearld — boys' name
547 babies named Jearld in U.S. Social Security records since 1920, with the highest year being 1941. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Jearld was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Jearld in 1941 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jearld
The Social Security Administration has registered 547 babies named Jearld between 1920 and 1983, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jearld currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jearld performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 160 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jearld shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jearld in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jearld in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 547 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jearld at a glance
Last recorded 1983Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jearld popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1983–1920
- Peak year (1941)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1983.
547 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1941 with 29 births in a single year.
Jearld by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 160 births that decade — 29% of Jearld's all-time total
Jearld decade highlights
- Peak decade 160 births
- Runner-up 125 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Jearld's strongest decade
160 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Jearld by state
Where Jearld concentrates geographically — total births since 1920
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 6 | 1.1% |
6 of 547 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1920–1983 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.