girls:
102 births since 1932
#5614 (2nd percentile)
boys:
26.1k births since 1909
#710 (85th percentile)
overall:
26.2k births since 1909
#1563 (80th percentile)
The name Jerald is the #1,563 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,240 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 79.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #710 (84.5% percentile) for all time with 26,138 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,614 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1932.
Jerald first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 1932 for girls).
The name Jerald has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerald reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 61.5% percentile (ranked #213) with 459 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 459 births per million (ranked 61.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerald ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerald reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #619) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerald".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jerald. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jerald is pronounced as JEH-ruhld, which has 2 syllables.
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