Jerald

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jerald is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 539◐
  • CACanada1 in 863
  • SGSingapore1 in 921

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈266K ●

across 8 countries

#601 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
523 ●

4.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

GeraldLatin · English●3.7M records
ג'רלדHebrew · Hebrew●1.9K records
제럴드Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gerald in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 19 more, Gérald in FR France and ג'רלד in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jerald is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#134257,8333.4M rec.1 in 1.3K258KGerald523
GB United Kingdom#172209,205192K rec.—listedGerald224
PH Philippines#149124,43594K rec.—52KGerald146
CA Canada#13596,39793K rec.—2Gerald195
DE Germany#30072,62966K rec.——Gerald201
AU Australia#32059,59859K rec.—1Gerald174
FR France#96350,99417K rec.—32KGérald199
AT Austria#11730,67211K rec.—3.5KGerald165
IT Italy#31925,36726K rec.—2Gerald70
ZA South Africa#23713,11813K rec.——Gerald103
SG Singapore#4511,68812K rec.——Gerald121
IE Ireland#1429,4929.4K rec.——Gerald87

Roughly 258K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English247K80%
  • Spanish20K6%
  • 8.6K3%
  • Indonesian3.3K1%
  • Swahili2.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English246,97280%
Spanish19,7016%
8,5673%
Indonesian3,2561%
Swahili2,5811%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jerald is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3.2K records spelled Jerald3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jerald is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, variant of Gerald; "rule of the spear"

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600800192019401960198020002020647 · 1942

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Jerald in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1909–2025
Yearrecords
19095
19109
191110
191219
191322
191430
191534
191654
191761
191859
191958
192059
192178
1922113
192378
192484
1925109
1926124
1927123
1928144
1929179
1930191
1931246
1932256
1933263
1934288
1935294
1936394
1937411
1938420
1939455
1940502
1941559
1942647
1943623
1944547
1945527
1946564
1947609
1948548
1949584
1950509
1951536
1952555
1953541
1954503
1955535
1956501
1957498
1958482
1959412
1960406
1961445
1962462
1963422
1964440
1965402
1966425
1967374
1968341
1969415
1970430
1971320
1972294
1973279
1974238
1975208
1976233
1977219
1978180
1979195
1980193
1981202
1982180
1983168
1984123
1985145
1986142
1987129
1988189
1989164
1990158
1991147
1992148
1993118
1994126
199597
1996107
199790
199890
199977
200074
200199
200263
200379
200456
200561
200651
200771
200859
200955
201044
201138
201251
201336
201438
201534
201635
201739
201837
201933
202035
202128
202224
202324
202428
202526

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 117 years between 1909–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Jerald C. Brauer, b. 1921Jerald terHorst, b. 1922Jerald Ericksen, b. 1924Jerald Clark, b. 1963Jerald S. Paul, b. 1966Jerald Chan, b. 1973Jerald Honeycutt, b. 1974Jerald Moore, b. 1974Jerald Sowell, b. 1974

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Jerald
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202252K#167
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,709
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1942647—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1943623—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1947609—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1949584—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1946564—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1941559—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1952555—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1948548—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1944547—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1953541—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 252 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jerald?
We estimate roughly 266 thousand people bear Jerald (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Jerald have the most bearers?
We estimate about 258 thousand people bear Jerald in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gerald.
How common is Jerald compared with other names?
In the United States, Jerald is the 134th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Jerald a male or female name?
Jerald is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jerald mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a nonstandard spelling of Gerald.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jerald” — the 134th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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