# Jerald (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jerald/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,293 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26,191 / 102 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 13, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 7 | 3,907 |
| 1944 | 7 | 3,870 |
| 1945 | 6 | 4,258 |
| 1947 | 5 | 5,672 |
| 1950 | 6 | 4,981 |
| 1951 | 6 | 5,102 |
| 1952 | 5 | 5,933 |
| 1955 | 6 | 5,481 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,856 |
| 1960 | 5 | 6,760 |
| 1961 | 5 | 6,991 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,467 |
| 1969 | 6 | 6,972 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,882 |
| 1992 | 5 | 14,184 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 3,025 |
| 2012 | 51 | 2,466 |
| 2013 | 36 | 3,090 |
| 2014 | 38 | 3,009 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,325 |
| 2016 | 35 | 3,258 |
| 2017 | 39 | 3,038 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,131 |
| 2019 | 33 | 3,452 |
| 2020 | 35 | 3,236 |
| 2021 | 28 | 3,864 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,364 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4,398 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,927 |
| 2025 | 26 | 4,081 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Jerald

- Jerald Honeycutt, American basketball player (born 1974)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.