Jerrold
Jerrold was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 8,467 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,820 Americans named Jerrold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 53 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerrold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jerrold mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jerrold is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, a re-spelling of Gerald.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jerrold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,153, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
343 babies in 1954, the peak
Jerrold peaked in 1954, when 343 boys were given it, #385 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,153 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,196 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,386 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,456 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,320 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,127 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,154 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,620 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #8,621 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,319 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,150 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,021 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,732 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,877 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,672 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,901 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,742 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,962 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,268 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,659 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,992 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 39 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 41 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,254 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 30 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 73 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 95 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 86 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 82 | #881 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 105 | #780 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 137 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 171 | #623 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 133 | #685 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 83 | #815 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 93 | #762 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 114 | #694 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 102 | #734 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 122 | #701 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 116 | #727 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 109 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 112 | #726 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 109 | #739 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 122 | #693 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 124 | #683 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 151 | #623 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 183 | #561 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 243 | #471 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 343 | #385 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 309 | #397 | 0.16 |
| 1952 | 281 | #411 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 279 | #406 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 226 | #440 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 165 | #520 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 165 | #513 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 189 | #489 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 190 | #464 | 0.12 |
| 1945 | 159 | #472 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 142 | #511 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 170 | #477 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 185 | #454 | 0.13 |
| 1941 | 170 | #452 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 145 | #479 | 0.13 |
| 1939 | 162 | #453 | 0.15 |
| 1938 | 125 | #519 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 137 | #487 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 112 | #543 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 122 | #523 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 121 | #536 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 97 | #590 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 94 | #615 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 96 | #602 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 99 | #619 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 74 | #730 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 50 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 55 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 44 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,147 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,570 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,527 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,433 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,359 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,874 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerrold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerrold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jerrold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerrold, and how old are they?
4,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 8,467 Americans ever recorded as Jerrold. The median Jerrold alive today is 66 years old; half are between 53 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 5,598 people named Jerrold (5 women and girls, 5,593 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,574 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 513 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 465 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 208 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37 |
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 Jerrold born?
The states with the most babies named Jerrold are New York, California and Illinois, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 870 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 729 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 724 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 396 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 330 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 296 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 293 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 205 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 136 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Jerrold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jerrold is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1911 it was given 1.6 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 Jerrold 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 43,788 babies since 1880, Jerrold is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 26 babies recorded by SSA was a Jerrold (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 Jerrold
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 Jerrold and names like it
- Compare Jerrold and JeraldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJerrold peaked in 1954.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerrold since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Jerrold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jerrold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.