How Many People Are Named Jerrold?

4,933

people named Jerrold are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 69,285 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,467 babies named Jerrold in Social Security records from 1911 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,753

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,413

See the top 100

Peak Year

1954

343 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JER-əld
Gender: Primarily Male

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 Jerrold in English. Counting Jerrold and these spellings together, about 242,832 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

GeroldGeroltGeraldJeraldJeroldGéraudGerholdGearaltGearóidGiraldoGeraldoGeralltGerryJerry

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Jerrold in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jerrold alive today is about 62 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 74 in 2025.

Under 30 262
5.3%
30 to 59 1,697
34.4%
60 and over 2,974
60.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jerrold first appears in the records in 1911 and was given most often in 1954, to 343 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1911 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Jerrold has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #385, in 1954.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#385 (1954)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#491 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jerrold alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jerrold were born in California than in any other state: about 451 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jerrold was given 2.8 times as often in Illinois, 2.7 times in Wisconsin and 2.1 times in California.

California 451
New York 438
Illinois 424
Ohio 221
Pennsylvania 175
Michigan 174
Wisconsin 147
Texas 102
Minnesota 91
Missouri 65
Indiana 65
Massachusetts 55
Washington 49
Iowa 31
Florida 27
New Jersey 27
Kansas 24
Georgia 15
Colorado 13
North Dakota 12
Alabama 12
Louisiana 8
Oregon 8
Maryland 8
Tennessee 7
New Mexico 6
South Dakota 6
Oklahoma 6
Arizona 5
Virginia 5
Nebraska 5
North Carolina 5
Montana 5
Connecticut 2
Utah 2

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