Jerrard
Jerrard was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 253 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerrard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerrard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,112, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1985, the peak
Jerrard peaked in 1985, when 16 boys were given it, #3,009 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #13,112 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,497 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,641 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,300 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,253 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,484 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,893 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,271 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,683 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,142 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14 | #3,595 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,176 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,737 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,009 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,178 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,688 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,391 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,179 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,700 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,608 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,335 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,831 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,850 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,999 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,777 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,189 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,260 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,657 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerrard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerrard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerrard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerrard, and how old are they?
An estimated 237 Americans named Jerrard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 247 people named Jerrard (5 women and girls, 242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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
Jerrard is a less common spelling of Jerard: SSA has recorded 253 Jerrard and 1,039 Jerard since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jerrard
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.