Meaning not yet researched.
Jerald: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #223 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #223 in 1942; #4,081 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerald in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,081 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #223.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Jerald: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #223 in 1942 · most boys in one year: 647 (1942).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Jerald, making it the 4,081st most common boys’ name of the year, down 154 places from #3,927 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 28 boys named Jerald in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #223, reached in 1942. That year also had the most boys given the name: 647. For comparison, it was #3,325 in 2015 and #300 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerald in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 26,293 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 5,735 babies named Jerald.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 309 US boys were named Jerald; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880), Jerrold (8,467 babies since 1880) and Jerold (7,434 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerrald, Jerauld and Jereld are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jerrald (835), Jerauld (140), Jereld (72), Jearold (37).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jerald in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 26 | #4,081 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,927 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,398 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,364 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,864 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,236 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,452 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,131 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,038 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,258 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,325 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #3,009 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,090 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,466 |
| 2011 | — | — | 38 | #3,025 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,759 |
| 2009 | — | — | 55 | #2,367 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,247 |
| 2007 | — | — | 71 | #1,988 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,428 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,048 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,119 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,600 |
| 2002 | — | — | 63 | #1,826 |
| 2001 | — | — | 99 | #1,321 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,594 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,482 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,327 |
| 1997 | — | — | 90 | #1,276 |
| 1996 | — | — | 107 | #1,114 |
| 1995 | — | — | 97 | #1,176 |
| 1994 | — | — | 126 | #989 |
| 1993 | — | — | 118 | #1,011 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,184 | 148 | #868 |
| 1991 | — | — | 147 | #869 |
| 1990 | — | — | 158 | #811 |
| 1989 | — | — | 164 | #774 |
| 1988 | — | — | 189 | #684 |
| 1987 | — | — | 129 | #822 |
| 1986 | — | — | 142 | #764 |
| 1985 | — | — | 145 | #734 |
| 1984 | — | — | 123 | #781 |
| 1983 | — | — | 168 | #660 |
| 1982 | — | — | 180 | #644 |
| 1981 | — | — | 202 | #601 |
| 1980 | — | — | 193 | #630 |
| 1979 | — | — | 195 | #612 |
| 1978 | — | — | 180 | #623 |
| 1977 | — | — | 219 | #565 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,882 | 233 | #530 |
| 1975 | — | — | 208 | #562 |
| 1974 | — | — | 238 | #512 |
| 1973 | — | — | 279 | #471 |
| 1972 | — | — | 294 | #457 |
| 1971 | — | — | 320 | #455 |
| 1970 | — | — | 430 | #388 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,972 | 415 | #384 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,467 | 341 | #415 |
| 1967 | — | — | 374 | #393 |
| 1966 | — | — | 425 | #366 |
| 1965 | — | — | 402 | #391 |
| 1964 | — | — | 440 | #377 |
| 1963 | — | — | 422 | #386 |
| 1962 | — | — | 462 | #375 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,991 | 445 | #374 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,760 | 406 | #391 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,856 | 412 | #390 |
| 1958 | — | — | 482 | #348 |
| 1957 | — | — | 498 | #339 |
| 1956 | — | — | 501 | #332 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,481 | 535 | #319 |
| 1954 | — | — | 503 | #322 |
| 1953 | — | — | 541 | #306 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,933 | 555 | #300 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,102 | 536 | #301 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,981 | 509 | #300 |
| 1949 | — | — | 584 | #282 |
| 1948 | — | — | 548 | #291 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,672 | 609 | #274 |
| 1946 | — | — | 564 | #269 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,258 | 527 | #251 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,870 | 547 | #246 |
| 1943 | — | — | 623 | #231 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,907 | 647 | #223 |
| 1941 | — | — | 559 | #229 |
| 1940 | — | — | 502 | #240 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,998 | 455 | #253 |
| 1938 | — | — | 420 | #268 |
| 1937 | — | — | 411 | #268 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,507 | 394 | #271 |
| 1935 | — | — | 294 | #315 |
| 1934 | — | — | 288 | #318 |
| 1933 | — | — | 263 | #331 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,136 | 256 | #345 |
| 1931 | — | — | 246 | #354 |
| 1930 | — | — | 191 | #427 |
| 1929 | — | — | 179 | #442 |
| 1928 | — | — | 144 | #505 |
| 1927 | — | — | 123 | #558 |
| 1926 | — | — | 124 | #545 |
| 1925 | — | — | 109 | #605 |
| 1924 | — | — | 84 | #724 |
| 1923 | — | — | 78 | #741 |
| 1922 | — | — | 113 | #610 |
| 1921 | — | — | 78 | #757 |
| 1920 | — | — | 59 | #899 |
| 1919 | — | — | 58 | #869 |
| 1918 | — | — | 59 | #863 |
| 1917 | — | — | 61 | #814 |
| 1916 | — | — | 54 | #860 |
| 1915 | — | — | 34 | #1,111 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,036 |
| 1913 | — | — | 22 | #1,089 |
| 1912 | — | — | 19 | #1,076 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,160 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,161 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,575 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).