girls:
1.1k births since 1912
#4654 (19th percentile)
boys:
160.9k births since 1880
#210 (95th percentile)
overall:
162k births since 1880
#463 (94th percentile)
The name Jerome is the #463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161,984 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #210 (95.4% percentile) for all time with 160,922 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,654 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 1,062 births since 1912.
Jerome has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Jerome has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerome reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 83.2% percentile (ranked #103) with 1,564 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 1,944 births per million (ranked 82.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1953, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerome ranks #730 for boys (19.9% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 5.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerome reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #748) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerome".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jerome. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Jerome is pronounced as jer-OHM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-ROHM, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH ER0 OW1 M) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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