# Jerrold (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jerrold/  
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 | 8,467 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,467 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 11 | 6,738 |
| 2005 | 13 | 6,027 |
| 2006 | 11 | 7,155 |
| 2007 | 11 | 7,323 |
| 2008 | 9 | 8,626 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,625 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,161 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,134 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,358 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,326 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,461 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,391 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,202 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,158 |

## People named Jerrold

- Jerrold Meinwald, American chemist and pharmacologist
- Jerrold E. Marsden, Canadian-American mathematician
- Napoleon XIV, American musician (1938–2023)
- Zack Norman, American actor
- Milton Shapp, American businessman and politician (1912–1994)

## 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.