How Many People Are Named Jerold?
people named Jerold are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 82,796 people in the US has this name
Based on 7,434 babies named Jerold in Social Security records from 1912 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
228 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of GERALD.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jerold in English. Counting Jerold and these spellings together, about 242,832 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Jerold in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Jerold alive today is about 62 years old, and 62% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 75 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Jerold first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1942, to 228 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Jerold has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #403, in 1942.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #403 (1942) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #459 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Jerold alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jerold were born in California than in any other state: about 350 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jerold was given 4.7 times as often in Wisconsin, 2.8 times in Nebraska and 2.5 times in Iowa.
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