Jerod
Jerod was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,857 among boys’ names; 6,014 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,630 Americans named Jerod and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerod by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerod?
#12,857 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerod fell from #7,739 in 2015 to #12,857 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
295 babies in 1980, the peak
Jerod peaked in 1980, when 295 boys were given it, #493 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,857 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,564 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,080 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,498 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,475 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,951 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,249 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,167 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,160 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,739 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,260 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,168 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,127 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,427 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,410 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,320 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,416 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,245 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,900 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,553 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,202 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 134 | #1,035 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 151 | #935 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 155 | #893 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 107 | #1,113 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,159 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 116 | #1,031 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 128 | #950 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 133 | #918 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 133 | #909 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 169 | #776 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 145 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 172 | #717 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 190 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 197 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 213 | #601 | 0.12 |
| 1984 | 224 | #567 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 274 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 275 | #512 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 285 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 295 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 259 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 232 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 191 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 165 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 177 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 148 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 105 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 115 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 93 | #847 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,037 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,157 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,172 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,488 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,785 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,020 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,800 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerod a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerod has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerod: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerod, and how old are they?
5,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,014 Americans ever recorded as Jerod. The median Jerod alive today is 41 years old; half are between 32 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 5,107 people named Jerod (0 women and girls, 5,107 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 997 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 101 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jerod born?
The states with the most babies named Jerod are Texas, California and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 525 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 437 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 257 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 253 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 179 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 176 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 164 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 149 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Kansas | 135 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Iowa | 119 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Jerod is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerod is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1936 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jerod with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 28,411 babies since 1880, Jerod is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 27 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
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 Jerod
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 Jerod and names like it
- Compare Jerod and JerrodBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerod peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerod since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Jerod.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerod alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.