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Jerald

Jerald means "Germanic ger (spear) + wald (rule), rule of the spear" and comes from Germanic, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It has not kept pace since its 1940s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

EtymologyVariant of Gerald
GermanicGermanic "ger" (spear) + "wald" (rule) – "rule of the spear"
Births by decade
1900s
5
1910s
356
1920s
1,091
1930s
3,235
1940s
5,731
1950s
5,096
1960s
4,155
1970s
2,602
1980s
1,635
1990s
1,163
2000s
667
2010s
315
Peaked in the 1940s · 26,051 total U.S. births since 1900