Meaning not yet researched.
Jerod: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #493 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #493 in 1980; #12,861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerod in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,861 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #493.
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Jerod: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #493 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 295 (1980).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Jerod, making it the 12,861st most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,292 places from #11,569 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 6 boys named Jerod in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #493, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 295. For comparison, it was #7,744 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerod in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 6,014 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,270 babies named Jerod.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 73 US boys were named Jerod; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jerrod (9,371 babies since 1880), Jered (3,797 babies since 1880), Jerad (3,784 babies since 1880) and Jerrad (1,751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jerade 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: Jerade (11).
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 Jerod 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 | — | — | 5 | #12,861 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,569 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,085 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,504 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,480 |
| 2020 | — | — | 5 | #12,958 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,254 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,190 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,171 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,165 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,744 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,265 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,173 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,133 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,429 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,411 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,136 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,810 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,320 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,642 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,420 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,768 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,249 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,904 |
| 2001 | — | — | 78 | #1,557 |
| 2000 | — | — | 113 | #1,204 |
| 1999 | — | — | 134 | #1,037 |
| 1998 | — | — | 151 | #936 |
| 1997 | — | — | 155 | #895 |
| 1996 | — | — | 107 | #1,115 |
| 1995 | — | — | 98 | #1,163 |
| 1994 | — | — | 116 | #1,035 |
| 1993 | — | — | 128 | #952 |
| 1992 | — | — | 133 | #921 |
| 1991 | — | — | 133 | #913 |
| 1990 | — | — | 169 | #780 |
| 1989 | — | — | 145 | #827 |
| 1988 | — | — | 172 | #717 |
| 1987 | — | — | 190 | #663 |
| 1986 | — | — | 197 | #639 |
| 1985 | — | — | 213 | #601 |
| 1984 | — | — | 224 | #567 |
| 1983 | — | — | 274 | #511 |
| 1982 | — | — | 275 | #512 |
| 1981 | — | — | 285 | #497 |
| 1980 | — | — | 295 | #493 |
| 1979 | — | — | 259 | #527 |
| 1978 | — | — | 232 | #544 |
| 1977 | — | — | 191 | #607 |
| 1976 | — | — | 165 | #642 |
| 1975 | — | — | 177 | #615 |
| 1974 | — | — | 148 | #665 |
| 1973 | — | — | 105 | #778 |
| 1972 | — | — | 115 | #739 |
| 1971 | — | — | 93 | #847 |
| 1970 | — | — | 62 | #1,037 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,157 |
| 1968 | — | — | 42 | #1,172 |
| 1967 | — | — | 27 | #1,489 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,786 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,106 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,955 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,789 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,718 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,483 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #3,021 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,801 |
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).