Jerard
Jerard was last recorded in 2019, when 9 babies were given it; 1,039 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,491, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1986, the peak
Jerard peaked in 1986, when 37 boys were given it, #1,705 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | #8,491 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,041 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,456 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,334 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,114 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,126 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,251 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,778 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,518 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,377 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #8,613 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,066 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,148 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,842 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,729 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,456 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,996 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,177 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,465 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,092 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,837 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,209 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,381 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,718 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,560 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,270 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,161 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,515 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,706 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,215 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,840 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,705 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,193 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,004 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,305 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,956 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,830 | 17.3 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,785 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,419 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,423 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,973 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,081 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,140 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,397 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,646 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,052 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,889 | 13.0 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,440 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,081 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,651 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,290 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,279 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,537 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,477 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,361 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,440 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,791 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,964 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,421 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,717 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,707 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,526 | 5.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,986 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,209 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,505 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,480 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,537 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,759 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,535 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,543 | 6.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,074 | 5.1 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,903 | 5.0 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,439 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,625 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerard, and how old are they?
An estimated 915 Americans named Jerard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 951 people named Jerard (0 women and girls, 951 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 946 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,411 babies since 1880, Jerard is the eighth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Jerard (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jerard
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 Jerard and names like it
- Compare Jerard and JerrodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerard peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerard since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Jerard.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerard alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.