boys:
835 births since 1918
#3752 (18th percentile)
overall:
835 births since 1918
#6904 (11th percentile)
The name Jerrald is the #6,904 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 835 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 10.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,752 (18.1% percentile) for all time with 835 births since 1918.
Jerrald first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for boys in 1918). Birth data for Jerrald is available in 74 out of the 92 years between 1918 and 2009. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Jerrald reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #508) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerrald".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jerrald is pronounced as JEH-ruhld, which has 2 syllables.
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